[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5392 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5392

To amend the Military Selective Service Act to allow women to elect to 
                        register for the draft.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2021

 Mr. Owens (for himself, Mrs. Steel, Mrs. Fischbach, Mr. Stewart, and 
 Ms. Tenney) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Military Selective Service Act to allow women to elect to 
                        register for the draft.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF WOMEN TO REGISTER FOR THE DRAFT.

    The Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. 3801 et seq.) is 
amended as follows:
            (1) Section 3 (50 U.S.C. 3802) is amended by adding at the 
        end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) A female citizen of the United States, or other female person 
residing in the United States, who is between the ages described in 
subsection (a), may elect to present herself and submit to registration 
pursuant to such subsection.''.
            (2) Section 4(a) (50 U.S.C. 3803(a)) is amended--
                    (A) in the first undesignated paragraph--
                            (i) by inserting ``(or who elects to 
                        register)'' after ``every person required to 
                        register''; and
                            (ii) by inserting ``(or having elected to 
                        register)'' after ``having been required to 
                        register''; and
                    (B) in the second undesignated paragraph, by 
                striking ``who is required to register'' and inserting 
                ``who registers''.
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