The 1996 Solomon Amendment is the popular name of 10 U.S.C. § 983, a United States federal law that allows the Secretary of Defense to deny federal grants (including research grants) to institutions of higher education if they prohibit or prevent ROTC or military recruitment on campus.
The Solomon Amendment relating to ROTC and military recruiting was passed in 1996.[2]
It denied federal grants from 8 federal agencies, including research
grants, to colleges and universities that prohibit or prevent the U.S.
armed forces from recruiting on campus in a manner "at least equal in
quality and scope" as other employers or that fail to allow for ROTC
programs as part of their academic programs subject to the same
standards as other academic programs. It was recodified in 1999.[3] The law was amended in 2002 to cover recruiting by the Coast Guard as part of the Department of Homeland Security.[4]
It also provides an exception for any institution with "a longstanding
policy of pacifism based on historical religious affiliation."[5]
It was revised in later years, most importantly in 1999, when Rep. Barney Frank
(D-MA) sponsored an exemption for financial aid funding (Pub L. 106-79
Sec. 8120), and again in 2001, when the Republican leadership of the
House Armed Services Committee included language denying all federal
funding to a university if any of its schools blocked access to
recruiters. This alteration significantly strengthened the reach of the
Solomon Amendment, since recruiters were most often denied access to law
schools, which receive little federal money.
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Amendment
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