PRINTER'S NO. 1317

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 1169 Session of 1987


        INTRODUCED BY DeWEESE, COY, MRKONIC, TIGUE, HALUSKA, MELIO,
           CORRIGAN, HERMAN, JACKSON, BROUJOS, WOGAN, DALEY, JOHNSON,
           FARGO, BLAUM, BELFANTI, GLADECK, E. Z. TAYLOR, BOOK, PHILLIPS
           AND PETRARCA, APRIL 27, 1987

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS,
           APRIL 27, 1987

                                     AN ACT

     1  Requiring the superintendent of every public school district and
     2     the principal of certain parochial, licensed private and
     3     nonpublic schools to make available, upon request, lists of
     4     graduating seniors to armed forces recruiters; and providing
     5     a penalty for the misuse of any such lists.

     6     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     7  hereby enacts as follows:
     8  Section 1.  Legislative intent.
     9     It is the intent of the General Assembly through this
    10  legislation to assist armed forces recruiters to achieve
    11  additional access to potential recruits by compiling a list of
    12  prospective graduating seniors for distribution, upon written
    13  request, to armed forces recruiters for the cost thereof, for
    14  recruiting purposes only.
    15  Section 2.  List of seniors to be compiled.
    16     (a)  Lists.--Subject to the limitations of subsection (b),
    17  the superintendent of every public school district and the
    18  principal of every parochial, licensed private and nonpublic

     1  school, except as otherwise provided, shall compile a list of
     2  senior students, both male and female, including home address
     3  and published telephone number, who at the end of the respective
     4  academic year will graduate from the school system. The list
     5  shall be compiled within 45 calendar days of the effective date
     6  of this act and in succeeding years by the first day of the
     7  academic year in which the senior students will graduate.
     8     (b)  Notification.--Each school district shall notify the
     9  students, in writing, prior to the end of their junior year, of
    10  the requirements imposed by subsection (a). Each student shall
    11  be given at least 21 calendar days to request, in writing, to
    12  the superintendent or principal, exclusion of such student's
    13  name prior to the release of such list.
    14  Section 3.  List to be made available.
    15     The list shall be made available to armed forces recruiters
    16  for the active component, the reserve component or the National
    17  Guard component of the armed forces.
    18  Section 4.  Penalties.
    19     A person who violates this act commits a summary offense and
    20  shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $100. Each
    21  day that a person violates this act shall constitute a separate
    22  offense.
    23  Section 5.  Effective date.
    24     This act shall take effect immediately.




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