PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1684 PRINTER'S NO. 2141
No. 1398 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY DeWEESE, BROUJOS, BUNT, CIMINI AND BELFANTI, JULY
21, 1983
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, NOVEMBER 15, 1983
AN ACT
1 Requiring the superintendent of every public school district AND <--
2 PRINCIPAL OF EVERY PAROCHIAL, LICENSED PRIVATE, AND NONPUBLIC
3 SCHOOL to make available, upon request, lists of graduating
4 seniors to armed forces recruiters; and providing a penalty
5 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 shall compile a list of senior students, both male and
2 female, including home address and published telephone number
3 who at the end of the respective academic year will graduate
4 from the school system. The list shall be compiled within 45
5 calendar days of the effective date of this act and in
6 succeeding years by the first day EACH SUCCEEDING YEAR WITHIN 45 <--
7 CALENDAR DAYS AFTER THE START of the academic year in which the
8 senior students will graduate.
9 (b) Notification.--Each school district shall notify the <--
10 students in writing prior to the end of their junior year of the
11 requirements imposed by subsection (a). Each student shall be
12 given at least 21 calendar days to request in writing to the
13 superintendent exclusion of such student's name prior to the
14 release of such list.
15 Section 3. List to be made available.
16 The list shall be made available to armed forces recruiters
17 for the active component, the reserve component or the National
18 Guard component of the armed forces.
19 Section 4. Penalties.
20 Any person who violates any section of this act, commits a
21 summary offense and, upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine
22 of $100. Each day that any person violates this act shall
23 constitute a separate offense.
24 Section 5. Effective date.
25 This act shall take effect immediately.
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