SENATE BILL REPORT

SB 6625

BYSenators von Reichbauer, Smitherman and Johnson

Prohibiting young men from receiving financial aid unless they have registered with selective service.

Senate Committee on Higher Education

Senate Hearing Date(s):January 31, 1990; February 1, 1990

Majority Report:     That Substitute Senate Bill No. 6625 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass.

     Signed by Senators Saling, Chairman; Bauer, Smitherman, Stratton, von Reichbauer.

Senate Staff:Scott Huntley (786-7421)

                February 1, 1990

AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION, FEBRUARY 1, 1990

BACKGROUND:

Federal law maintains that any person who is required to submit to selective service registration and fails to do so is ineligible to receive federal financial aid under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

Thirteen states also have laws which require proof of selective service registration for males as a condition of receiving state financial aid.  Four other states have laws denying enrollment in state institutions of higher education to males who fail to register for selective service.

SUMMARY:

A male under the age of twenty-six is not eligible to receive state financial aid or to enroll in any state institution of higher education unless the person files a statement of selective service status certifying that he has registered with the selective service system, or is not required, by federal law, to register with the selective service system.

EFFECT OF PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE:

All males born after December 1, 1970 are not eligible to receive state financial aid unless the person files a statement of selective service status certifying that he has registered with the selective service system, or is not required by federal law to register.

Appropriation:  none

Revenue:   none

Fiscal Note:    available

Senate Committee - Testified:   Ed Weinbrecht, Selective Service System (pro)