ROTC ACCESS TO CAMPUSES.

SEC. 541. ROTC ACCESS TO CAMPUSES. (a) In General.— Chapter 49 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: “983. Institutions of higher education that prohibit Senior ROTC units: denial of Department of Defense grants and contracts.”. “(a) Denial of Department of Defense Grants and Contracts.— (1) No funds appropriated or otherwise available to the Department of Defense may be made obligated by contract or by grant (including a grant of funds to be available for student aid) to any institution of higher education that, as determined by the Secretary of Defense, has an anti-ROTC policy and at which, as determined by the Secretary, the Secretary would otherwise maintain or seek to establish a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps or at which the Secretary would otherwise enroll or seek to enroll students for participation in a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps at another nearby institution of higher education. “(2) In the case of an institution of higher education that is ineligible for Department of Defense grants and contracts by reason of paragraph (1), the prohibition under that paragraph shall 110 STAT. 316cease to apply to that institution upon a determination by the Secretary tnat the institution no longer has an anti-ROTC policy. “(b) Notice of Determination.— Whenever the Secretary makes a determination under subsection (a) that an institution has an anti-ROTC policy, or that an institution previously determined to have an anti-ROTC policy no longer has such a policy, the Secretary— “(1) shall transmit notice of that determination to the Secretary of Education and to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives; and “(2) shall publish in the Federal Register notice of that determination and of the effect of that determination under subsection (a)(1) on the eligibility of that institution for Department of Defense grants ana contracts. “(c) Semiannual Notice in Federal Register.— The Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register once every six months a list of each institution of higher education that is currently ineligible for Department of Defense grants and contracts by reason of a determination of the Secretary under subsection (a). “(d) Anti-ROTC Policy.— In this section, the term ‘anti-ROTC policy’ means a policy or practice of an institution of higher education that— “(1) prohibits, or in effect prevents, the Secretary of Defense from maintaining or establishing a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps at that institution, or “(2) prohibits, or in effect prevents, a student at that institution from enrolling in a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps at another institution of higher education.”, (b) Clerical Amendment..— The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: “983. Institutions of higher education that prohibit Senior ROTC units: denial of Department of Defense grants and contracts.”.