[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 84 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3314]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4276. Mr. LEE (for himself, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Rounds, Mr. 
Sasse, and Mr. Wicker) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       Strike section 591 and insert the following:

     SEC. 591. MODIFICATION OF PERSONS SUBJECT TO REGISTER FOR 
                   MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE ONLY PURSUANT TO 
                   STATUTE.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the decision of the Secretary of Defense to open all military 
     occupational specialties to women raises important legal, 
     political, and social questions about who should be required 
     to register for military selective service and how the 
     Military Selective Service Act currently benefits the 
     national security of the United States.
       (b) Report.--Not later than July 1, 2017, the Secretary of 
     Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of 
     the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the 
     current and future need for a centralized registration system 
     for military selective service. The report shall include an 
     assessment of--
       (1) whether a continuing need exists for a selective 
     service system designed to produce large quantities of combat 
     troops; and
       (2) if so, whether that system should include mandatory 
     registration by citizens and residents regardless of gender.
       (c) Modification Only Pursuant to Statute.--Section 3 of 
     the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. 3802) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(c) Any modification or change to the persons subject to 
     register pursuit to this section may be made only through an 
     Act of Congress.''.
       (d) Prohibition on Court Jurisdiction of Claims Regarding 
     Class of Persons With Duty To Register.--No court created by 
     Act of Congress shall have any jurisdiction, and the Supreme 
     Court shall have no appellate jurisdiction, to hear or decide 
     any question or claim, whether filed before, on, or after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, pertaining to the 
     interpretation of, or the validity under the Constitution of, 
     the class of persons subject to the duty to register for 
     purposes of the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. 
     3801 et seq.).
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