[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 84 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3318]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4287. Mr. TILLIS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       Strike section 563 and insert the following:

     SEC. 563. ACCESS TO DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INSTALLATIONS OF 
                   INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION PROVIDING 
                   CERTAIN ADVISING AND STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES.

       (a) In General.--Chapter 101 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by inserting after section 2012 the 
     following new section:

     ``Sec. 2012a. Access to Department of Defense installations: 
       institutions of higher education providing certain advising 
       and student support services

       ``(a) Access.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense may grant 
     access to Department of Defense installations to any 
     institution of higher education that--
       ``(A) has--
       ``(i) entered into a Voluntary Education Partnership 
     Memorandum of Understanding with the Department for the 
     purpose of providing at the installation concerned timely 
     face-to-face student advising and related support services to 
     members of the armed forces and other persons who are 
     eligible for assistance under Department of Defense 
     educational assistance programs and authorities; and
       ``(ii) been approved to provide such advising and support 
     services by the educational service office of the 
     installation concerned; or
       ``(B) has been approved by the base transition office of 
     the installation concerned to educate members of the armed 
     forces about education and employment after military service.
       ``(2) Scope of access.--Access under paragraph (1) shall be 
     granted in a nondiscriminatory manner to any institution 
     covered by that paragraph.
       ``(b) Regulations.--The Secretary shall prescribe in 
     regulations the time and place of access authorized pursuant 
     to subsection (a). The regulations shall provide the 
     following:
       ``(1) The opportunity for institutions of higher education 
     to receive access at times and places that ensure sufficient 
     opportunity for students to obtain advising and support 
     services described in subsection (a).
       ``(2) The opportunity for institutions of higher education 
     to receive sufficient access at times and places that ensure 
     maximum opportunity for members of the armed forces 
     transitioning to life after military service, as determined 
     by the base transition officer concerned, to receive 
     advising, student support services, and education pursuant to 
     this section.
       ``(3) Access shall be limited to face-to-face student 
     advisement and related support services for students and 
     members of the armed forces who have elected to participate 
     in the higher education track of the Transition Assistance 
     Program, and may not otherwise be used as an opportunity to 
     conduct recruitment or marketing activities.
       ``(c) Definitions.--In this section:
       ``(1) The term `Department of Defense educational 
     assistance programs and authorities' has the meaning given 
     the term `Department of Defense educational assistance 
     programs and authorities covered by this section' in section 
     2006a(c)(1) of this title.
       ``(2) The term `institution of higher education' has the 
     meaning given that term in section 2006a(c)(2) of this title.
       ``(3) The term `Voluntary Education Partnership Memorandum 
     of Understanding' has the meaning given that term in 
     Department of Defense Instruction 1322.25, entitled 
     `Voluntary Education Programs', or any successor Department 
     of Defense Instruction.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of chapter 101 of such title is amended by 
     inserting after the item relating to section 2012 the 
     following new item:

``2012a. Access to Department of Defense installations: institutions of 
              higher education providing certain advising and student 
              support services.''.
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