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[CITE: 10USC503]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                         CHAPTER 31--ENLISTMENTS
 
Sec. 503. Enlistments: recruiting campaigns; compilation of 
        directory information
        
    (a) Recruiting Campaigns.--(1) The Secretary concerned shall conduct 
intensive recruiting campaigns to obtain enlistments in the Regular 
Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, Regular Marine Corps, and Regular 
Coast Guard.
    (2) The Secretary of Defense shall act on a continuing basis to 
enhance the effectiveness of recruitment programs of the Department of 
Defense (including programs conducted jointly and programs conducted by 
the separate armed forces) through an aggressive program of advertising 
and market research targeted at prospective recruits for the armed 
forces and those who may influence prospective recruits. Subchapter I of 
chapter 35 of title 44 shall not apply to actions taken as part of that 
program.
    (b) Compilation of Directory Information.--(1) The Secretary of 
Defense may collect and compile directory information pertaining to each 
student who is 17 years of age or older or in the eleventh grade (or its 
equivalent) or higher and who is enrolled in a secondary school in the 
United States or its territories, possessions, or the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico.
    (2) The Secretary may make directory information collected and 
compiled under this subsection available to the armed forces for 
military recruiting purposes. Such information may not be disclosed for 
any other purpose.
    (3) Directory information pertaining to any person may not be 
maintained for more than 3 years after the date the information 
pertaining to such person is first collected and compiled under this 
subsection.
    (4) Directory information collected and compiled under this 
subsection shall be confidential, and a person who has had access to 
such information may not disclose such information except for the 
purposes described in paragraph (2).
    (5) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations to carry 
out this subsection. Regulations prescribed under this subsection shall 
be submitted to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the 
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives. Regulations 
prescribed by the Secretaries concerned to carry out this subsection 
shall be as uniform as practicable.
    (6) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as requiring, or 
authorizing the Secretary of Defense to require, that any educational 
institution furnish directory information to the Secretary.
    (c) Each local educational agency is requested to provide to the 
Department of Defense, upon a request made for military recruiting 
purposes, the same access to secondary school students, and to directory 
information concerning such students, as is provided generally to post-
secondary educational institutions or to prospective employers of those 
students.
    (d) Directory Information Defined.--In this section, the term 
``directory information'' has the meaning given that term in subsection 
(a)(5)(A) of section 444 of the General Education Provisions Act (20 
U.S.C. 1232g).

(Added Pub. L. 90-235, Sec. 2(a)(1)(B), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 754; 
amended Pub. L. 97-252, title XI, Sec. 1114(b)(1), (2), Sept. 8, 1982, 
96 Stat. 749; Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title XV, Sec. 1502(a)(1), Feb. 
10, 1996, 110 Stat. 502; Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title V, Sec. 571, 
title X, Sec. 1067(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 622, 774; Pub. L. 106-
398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title V, Secs. 562, 563(a)-(c)], Oct. 30, 2000, 
114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-131 to 1654A-133.)

                       Amendment of Subsection (c)

        Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title V, Sec. 563(a), (d)], 
    Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-131, 1654A-133, provided that, 
    effective July 1, 2002, subsection (c) of this section is amended to 
    read as follows:
    (c) Access to Secondary Schools.--(1) Each local educational agency 
shall (except as provided under paragraph (5)) provide to the Department 
of Defense, upon a request made for military recruiting purposes, the 
same access to secondary school students, and to directory information 
concerning such students, as is provided generally to post-secondary 
educational institutions or to prospective employers of those students.
    (2) If a local educational agency denies a request by the Department 
of Defense for recruiting access, the Secretary of Defense, in 
cooperation with the Secretary of the military department concerned, 
shall designate an officer in a grade not below the grade of colonel or, 
in the case of the Navy, captain, or a senior executive of that military 
department to meet with representatives of that local educational agency 
in person, at the offices of that agency, for the purpose of arranging 
for recruiting access. The designated officer or senior executive shall 
seek to have that meeting within 120 days of the date of the denial of 
the request for recruiting access.
    (3) If, after a meeting under paragraph (2) with representatives of 
a local educational agency that has denied a request for recruiting 
access or (if the educational agency declines a request for the meeting) 
after the end of such 120-day period, the Secretary of Defense 
determines that the agency continues to deny recruiting access, the 
Secretary shall transmit to the chief executive of the State in which 
the agency is located a notification of the denial of recruiting access 
and a request for assistance in obtaining that access. The notification 
shall be transmitted within 60 days after the date of the determination. 
The Secretary shall provide to the Secretary of Education a copy of such 
notification and any other communication between the Secretary and that 
chief executive with respect to such access.
    (4) If a local educational agency continues to deny recruiting 
access one year after the date of the transmittal of a notification 
regarding that agency under paragraph (3), the Secretary--
        (A) shall determine whether the agency denies recruiting access 
    to at least two of the armed forces (other than the Coast Guard when 
    it is not operating as a service in the Navy); and
        (B) upon making an affirmative determination under subparagraph 
    (A), shall transmit a notification of the denial of recruiting 
    access to--
            (i) the specified congressional committees;
            (ii) the Senators of the State in which the local 
        educational agency is located; and
            (iii) the member of the House of Representatives who 
        represents the district in which the local educational agency is 
        located.

    (5) The requirements of this subsection do not apply to--
        (A) a local educational agency with respect to access to 
    secondary school students or access to directory information 
    concerning such students for any period during which there is in 
    effect a policy of that agency, established by majority vote of the 
    governing body of the agency, to deny recruiting access to those 
    students or to that directory information, respectively; or
        (B) a private secondary school which maintains a religious 
    objection to service in the armed forces and which objection is 
    verifiable through the corporate or other organizational documents 
    or materials of that school.

    (6) In this subsection:
        (A) The term ``local educational agency'' means--
            (i) a local educational agency, within the meaning of that 
        term in section 14101(18) of the Elementary and Secondary 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8801(18)); and
            (ii) a private secondary school.

        (B) The term ``recruiting access'' means access requested as 
    described in paragraph (1).
        (C) The term ``senior executive'' has the meaning given that 
    term in section 3132(a)(3) of title 5.
        (D) The term ``State'' includes the District of Columbia, the 
    Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
    Mariana Islands, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the 
    Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall 
    Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
        (E) The term ``specified congressional committees'' means the 
    following:
            (i) The Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate.
            (ii) The Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives.

        (F) The term ``member of the House of Representatives'' includes 
    a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to Congress.


                               Amendments

    2000--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title V, 
Secs. 562, 563(c)(1)], inserted heading, designated existing provisions 
as par. (1), and added par. (2).
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title V, 
Sec. 563(c)(2)], inserted heading.
    Subsec. (b)(7). Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title V, 
Sec. 563(b)(1)], struck out par. (7) which read as follows: ``In this 
subsection, `directory information' means, with respect to a student, 
the student's name, address, telephone listing, date and place of birth, 
level of education, degrees received, and the most recent previous 
educational agency or institution attended by the student.''
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title V, 
Sec. 563(b)(2)], added subsec. (d).
    1999--Subsec. (b)(5). Pub. L. 106-65, Sec. 1067(1), substituted 
``and the Committee on Armed Services'' for ``and the Committee on 
National Security''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106-65, Sec. 571, added subsec. (c).
    1996--Subsec. (b)(5). Pub. L. 104-106 substituted ``Committee on 
Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of 
the House of Representatives'' for ``Committees on Armed Services of the 
Senate and House of Representatives''.
    1982--Pub. L. 97-252, Sec. 1114(b)(2), inserted ``; compilation of 
directory information'' in section catchline.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97-252, Sec. 1114(b)(1)(A), designated existing 
provisions as subsec. (a).
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97-252, Sec. 1114(b)(1)(B), added subsec. (b).


                    Effective Date of 2000 Amendment

    Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title V, Sec. 563(d)], Oct. 30, 
2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-133, provided that: ``The amendment made by 
subsection (a) [amending this section] shall take effect on July 1, 
2002.''


                     Army Recruiting Pilot Programs

    Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title V, Sec. 561], Oct. 30, 
2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-129, provided that:
    ``(a) Requirement for Programs.--The Secretary of the Army shall 
carry out pilot programs to test various recruiting approaches under 
this section for the following purposes:
        ``(1) To assess the effectiveness of the recruiting approaches 
    for creating enhanced opportunities for recruiters to make direct, 
    personal contact with potential recruits.
        ``(2) To improve the overall effectiveness and efficiency of 
    Army recruiting activities.
    ``(b) Outreach Through Motor Sports.--(1) One of the pilot programs 
shall be a pilot program of public outreach that associates the Army 
with motor sports competitions to achieve the objectives set forth in 
paragraph (2).
    ``(2) The events and activities undertaken under the pilot program 
shall be designed to provide opportunities for Army recruiters to make 
direct, personal contact with high school students to achieve the 
following objectives:
        ``(A) To increase enlistments by students graduating from high 
    school.
        ``(B) To reduce attrition in the Delayed Entry Program of the 
    Army by sustaining the personal commitment of students who have 
    elected delayed entry into the Army under the program.
    ``(3) Under the pilot program, the Secretary of the Army shall 
provide for the following:
        ``(A) For Army recruiters or other Army personnel--
            ``(i) to organize Army sponsored career day events in 
        association with national motor sports competitions; and
            ``(ii) to arrange for or encourage attendance at the 
        competitions by high school students, teachers, guidance 
        counselors, and administrators of high schools located near the 
        competitions.
        ``(B) For Army recruiters and other soldiers to attend national 
    motor sports competitions--
            ``(i) to display exhibits depicting the contemporary Army 
        and career opportunities in the Army; and
            ``(ii) to discuss those opportunities with potential 
        recruits.
        ``(C) For the Army to sponsor a motor sports racing team as part 
    of an integrated program of recruitment and publicity for the Army.
        ``(D) For the Army to sponsor motor sports competitions for high 
    school students at which recruiters meet with potential recruits.
        ``(E) For Army recruiters or other Army personnel to compile in 
    an Internet accessible database the names, addresses, telephone 
    numbers, and electronic mail addresses of persons who are identified 
    as potential recruits through activities under the pilot program.
        ``(F) Any other activities associated with motor sports 
    competition that the Secretary determines appropriate for Army 
    recruitment purposes.
    ``(c) Outreach at Vocational Schools and Community Colleges.--(1) 
One of the pilot programs shall be a pilot program under which Army 
recruiters are assigned, as their primary responsibility, at 
postsecondary vocational institutions and community colleges for the 
purpose of recruiting students graduating from those institutions and 
colleges, recent graduates of those institutions and colleges, and 
students withdrawing from enrollments in those institutions and 
colleges.
    ``(2) The Secretary of the Army shall select the institutions and 
colleges to be invited to participate in the pilot program.
    ``(3) The conduct of the pilot program at an institution or college 
shall be subject to an agreement which the Secretary shall enter into 
with the governing body or authorized official of the institution or 
college, as the case may be.
    ``(4) Under the pilot program, the Secretary shall provide for the 
following:
        ``(A) For Army recruiters to be placed in postsecondary 
    vocational institutions and community colleges to serve as a 
    resource for guidance counselors and to recruit for the Army.
        ``(B) For Army recruiters to recruit from among students and 
    graduates described in paragraph (1).
        ``(C) For the use of telemarketing, direct mail, interactive 
    voice response systems, and Internet website capabilities to assist 
    the recruiters in the postsecondary vocational institutions and 
    community colleges.
        ``(D) For any other activities that the Secretary determines 
    appropriate for recruitment activities in postsecondary vocational 
    institutions and community colleges.
    ``(5) In this subsection, the term `postsecondary vocational 
institution' has the meaning given the term in section 102(c) of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002(c)).
    ``(d) Contract Recruiting Initiatives.--(1) One of the pilot 
programs shall be a program that expands in accordance with this 
subsection the scope of the Army's contract recruiting initiatives that 
are ongoing as of the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 2000]. 
Under the pilot program, the Secretary of the Army shall select at least 
10 recruiting companies to apply the initiatives in efforts to recruit 
personnel for the Army.
    ``(2) Under the pilot program, the Secretary shall provide for the 
following:
        ``(A) For replacement of the Regular Army recruiters by contract 
    recruiters in the 10 recruiting companies selected under paragraph 
    (1).
        ``(B) For operation of the 10 companies under the same rules and 
    chain of command as the other Army recruiting companies.
        ``(C) For use of the offices, facilities, and equipment of the 
    10 companies by the contract recruiters.
        ``(D) For reversion to performance of the recruiting activities 
    by Regular Army soldiers in the 10 companies upon termination of the 
    pilot program.
        ``(E) For any other uses of contractor personnel for Army 
    recruiting activities that the Secretary determines appropriate.
    ``(e) Duration of Pilot Programs.--The pilot programs required by 
this section shall be carried out during the period beginning on October 
1, 2000, and, subject to subsection (f), ending on December 31, 2005.
    ``(f) Authority To Expand or Extend Pilot Programs.--The Secretary 
may expand the scope of any of the pilot programs (under subsection 
(b)(3)(F), (c)(4)(D), (d)(2)(E), or otherwise) or extend the period for 
any of the pilot programs. Before doing so in the case of a pilot 
program, the Secretary of the Army shall submit to the Committee on 
Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives a written notification of the expansion of the 
pilot program (together with the scope of the expansion) or the 
continuation of the pilot program (together with the period of the 
extension), as the case may be.
    ``(g) Reports.--Not later than February 1, 2006, the Secretary of 
the Army shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives a separate report on each of the pilot 
programs carried out under this section. The report on a pilot program 
shall include the following:
        ``(1) The Secretary's assessment of the value of the actions 
    taken in the administration of the pilot program for increasing the 
    effectiveness and efficiency of Army recruiting.
        ``(2) Any recommendations for legislation or other action that 
    the Secretary considers appropriate to increase the effectiveness 
    and efficiency of Army recruiting.''


   Pilot Program To Enhance Military Recruiting by Improving Military 
              Awareness of School Counselors and Educators

    Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title V, Sec. 564], Oct. 30, 
2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-133, provided that:
    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a pilot 
program to determine if cooperation with military recruiters by local 
educational agencies and by institutions of higher education could be 
enhanced by improving the understanding of school counselors and 
educators about military recruiting and military career opportunities. 
The pilot program shall be conducted during a three-year period 
beginning not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act [Oct. 30, 2000].
    ``(b) Conduct of Pilot Program Through Participation in Interactive 
Internet Site.--(1) The pilot program shall be conducted by means of 
participation by the Department of Defense in a qualifying interactive 
Internet site.
    ``(2) For purposes of this section, a qualifying interactive 
Internet site is an Internet site in existence as of the date of the 
enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 2000] that is designed to provide to 
employees of local educational agencies and institutions of higher 
education participating in the Internet site--
        ``(A) systems for communicating;
        ``(B) resources for individual professional development;
        ``(C) resources to enhance individual on-the-job effectiveness; 
    and
        ``(D) resources to improve organizational effectiveness.
    ``(3) Participation in an Internet site by the Department of Defense 
for purposes of this section shall include--
        ``(A) funding;
        ``(B) assistance; and
        ``(C) access by other Internet site participants to Department 
    of Defense aptitude testing programs, career development 
    information, and other resources, in addition to information on 
    military recruiting and career opportunities.
    ``(c) Report.--The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed 
Services of the House of Representatives a report providing the 
Secretary's findings and conclusions on the pilot program not later than 
180 days after the end of the three-year program period.''


    Measures To Improve Recruit Quality and Reduce Recruit Attrition

    Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title V, subtitle D, Nov. 18, 1997, 111 
Stat. 1738, provided that:
``SEC. 531. REFORM OF MILITARY RECRUITING SYSTEMS.
    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall carry out reforms 
in the recruiting systems of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps 
in order to improve the quality of new recruits and to reduce attrition 
among recruits.
    ``(b) Specific Reforms.--As part of the reforms in military 
recruiting systems to be undertaken under subsection (a), the Secretary 
shall take the following steps:
        ``(1) Improve the system of pre-enlistment waivers and 
    separation codes used for recruits by (A) revising and updating 
    those waivers and codes to allow more accurate and useful data 
    collection about those separations, and (B) prescribing regulations 
    to ensure that those waivers and codes are interpreted in a uniform 
    manner by the military services.
        ``(2) Develop a reliable database for (A) analyzing (at both the 
    Department of Defense and service-level) data on reasons for 
    attrition of new recruits, and (B) undertaking Department of Defense 
    or service-specific measures (or both) to control and manage such 
    attrition.
        ``(3) Require that the Secretary of each military department (A) 
    adopt or strengthen incentives for recruiters to thoroughly 
    prescreen potential candidates for recruitment, and (B) link 
    incentives for recruiters, in part, to the ability of a recruiter to 
    screen out unqualified candidates before enlistment.
        ``(4) Require that the Secretary of each military department 
    include as a measurement of recruiter performance the percentage of 
    persons enlisted by a recruiter who complete initial combat training 
    or basic training.
        ``(5) Assess trends in the number and use of waivers over the 
    1991-1997 period that were issued to permit applicants to enlist 
    with medical or other conditions that would otherwise be 
    disqualifying.
        ``(6) Require the Secretary of each military department to 
    implement policies and procedures (A) to ensure the prompt 
    separation of recruits who are unable to successfully complete basic 
    training, and (B) to remove those recruits from the training 
    environment while separation proceedings are pending.
    ``(c) Report.--Not later than March 31, 1998, the Secretary shall 
submit to Congress a report of the trends assessed under subsection 
(b)(5). The information on those trends provided in the report shall be 
shown by armed force and by category of waiver. The report shall include 
recommendations of the Secretary for changing, revising, or limiting the 
use of waivers referred to in that subsection.
``SEC. 532. IMPROVEMENTS IN MEDICAL PRESCREENING OF APPLICANTS FOR 
        MILITARY SERVICE.
    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall improve the 
medical prescreening of applicants for entrance into the Army, Navy, Air 
Force, or Marine Corps.
    ``(b) Specific Steps.--As part of those improvements, the Secretary 
shall take the following steps:
        ``(1) Require that each applicant for service in the Army, Navy, 
    Air Force, or Marine Corps (A) provide to the Secretary the name of 
    the applicant's medical insurer and the names of past medical 
    providers, and (B) sign a release allowing the Secretary to request 
    and obtain medical records of the applicant.
        ``(2) Require that the forms and procedures for medical 
    prescreening of applicants that are used by recruiters and by 
    Military Entrance Processing Commands be revised so as to ensure 
    that medical questions are specific, unambiguous, and tied directly 
    to the types of medical separations most common for recruits during 
    basic training and follow-on training.
        ``(3) Add medical screening tests to the examinations of 
    recruits carried out by Military Entrance Processing Stations, 
    provide more thorough medical examinations to selected groups of 
    applicants, or both, to the extent that the Secretary determines 
    that to do so could be cost effective in reducing attrition at basic 
    training.
        ``(4) Provide for an annual quality control assessment of the 
    effectiveness of the Military Entrance Processing Commands in 
    identifying medical conditions in recruits that existed before 
    enlistment in the Armed Forces, each such assessment to be performed 
    by an agency or contractor other than the Military Entrance 
    Processing Commands.
``SEC. 533. IMPROVEMENTS IN PHYSICAL FITNESS OF RECRUITS.
    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall take steps to 
improve the physical fitness of recruits before they enter basic 
training.
    ``(b) Specific Steps.--As part of those improvements, the Secretary 
shall take the following steps:
        ``(1) Direct the Secretary of each military department to 
    implement programs under which new recruits who are in the Delayed 
    Entry Program are encouraged to participate in physical fitness 
    activities before reporting to basic training.
        ``(2) Develop a range of incentives for new recruits to 
    participate in physical fitness programs, as well as for those 
    recruits who improve their level of fitness while in the Delayed 
    Entry Program, which may include access to Department of Defense 
    military fitness facilities, and access to military medical 
    facilities in the case of a recruit who is injured while 
    participating in physical activities with recruiters or other 
    military personnel.
        ``(3) Evaluate whether partnerships between recruiters and 
    reserve components, or other innovative arrangements, could provide 
    a pool of qualified personnel to assist in the conduct of physical 
    training programs for new recruits in the Delayed Entry Program.''


Denial of Funds for Preventing ROTC Access to Campus or Federal Military 
                    Recruiting on Campus; Exceptions

    Pub. L. 104-208, div. A, title I, Sec. 101(e) [title V, Sec. 514], 
Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009-233, 3009-270, which provided that none 
of the funds made available in any Departments of Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act 
for any fiscal year could be provided by contract or by grant to a 
covered educational entity if the Secretary of Defense determined that 
the covered educational entity had a policy or practice that prohibited 
or prevented the maintaining, establishing, or operation of a unit of 
the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps at the covered educational 
entity, or a student at the covered educational entity from enrolling in 
a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps at another 
institution of higher education, or prohibited or prevented entry to 
campuses, or access to students on campuses, for purposes of Federal 
military recruiting or access by military recruiters for purposes of 
Federal military recruiting to student names, addresses, and telephone 
listings and, if known, student ages, levels of education, and majors, 
was repealed and restated in section 983 of this title by Pub. L. 106-
65, div. A, title V, Sec. 549(a)(1), (b)(2), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 
609, 611.


                      Military Recruiting on Campus

    Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title V, Sec. 558, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 
2776, as amended by Pub. L. 104-324, title II, Sec. 206(a), Oct. 19, 
1996, 110 Stat. 3908, which provided that no funds available to the 
Department of Defense or the Department of Transportation could be 
provided by grant or contract to any institution of higher education 
that had a policy of denying or preventing the Secretary of Defense or 
the Secretary of Transportation from obtaining for military recruiting 
purposes entry to campuses or access to students on campuses or access 
to directory information pertaining to students, was repealed and 
restated in section 983 of this title by Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title 
V, Sec. 549(a)(1), (b)(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 609, 611.


                     Military Recruiting Information

    Section 1114(a) of Pub. L. 97-252 provided that: ``The Congress 
finds that in order for Congress to carry out effectively its 
constitutional authority to raise and support armies, it is essential--
        ``(1) that the Secretary of Defense obtain and compile directory 
    information pertaining to students enrolled in secondary schools 
    throughout the United States; and
        ``(2) that such directory information be used only for military 
    recruiting purposes and be retained in the case of each person with 
    respect to whom such information is obtained and compiled for a 
    limited period of time.''


  Access of Armed Forces Recruiting Personnel to Secondary Educational 
                      Institutions; Release of Data

    Pub. L. 96-342, title III, Sec. 302(d), Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 
1083, provided that: ``It is the sense of the Congress--
        ``(1) that secondary educational institutions in the United 
    States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories of the 
    United States should cooperate with the Armed Forces by allowing 
    recruiting personnel access to such institutions; and
        ``(2) that it is appropriate for such institutions to release to 
    the Armed Forces information regarding students at such institutions 
    (including such data as names, addresses, and education levels) 
    which is relevant to recruiting individuals for service in the Armed 
    Forces.''
