S.Amdt. 2307

SA 2307. Mr. SULLIVAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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:

At the end of subtitle I of title V, add the following:

SEC. 597B. ACCESS TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS FOR RECRUITING
PURPOSES.

(a) In General.--Section 503(c)(1) of title 10, United
States Code, is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (A)--
(A) by redesignating clauses (i) through (iii) as
subclauses (I) through (III), respectively;
(B) by striking ``Each local educational agency'' and
inserting ``(i) Each local educational agency'';
(C) in subclause (I), as redesignated by subparagraph (A),
by striking ``the same access to secondary school students as
is provided generally to postsecondary educational
institutions or to prospective employers of those students''
and inserting ``optimal access to secondary school
students''; and
(D) by adding at the end the following new clause:
``(ii) In this subparagraph, the term `optimal access'
means access that--
``(I) is at least equal to that provided for postsecondary
educational institution and potential employer recruitment;
``(II) allows military service recruiters to be located in
a high traffic area of the school that promotes student
engagement;
``(III) allows school representatives to facilitate virtual
recruiter engagement;
``(IV) does not place any prohibition or restriction on a
military service recruiter that does not also apply to a
postsecondary educational institution or potential employer
recruiter; and
``(V) is provided to military recruiters not fewer than 4
times per academic year.''; and
(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``subparagraph
(A)(iii)'' and inserting ``subparagraph (A)(i)(III)''.
(b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, 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 including--
(1) an assessment of access to secondary schools provided
to service recruiters; and
(2) any recommendations of the Secretary to improve
recruiter access to secondary schools.
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