[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 91 (Thursday, June 9, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3782-S3783]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4669. Mr. SASSE (for himself and Mr. Lee) 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 THE MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     there are important legal, political, and social questions 
     about who should be required to register for military 
     selective service and how the Military Selective Service Act 
     benefits the national security of the United States of 
     America.
       (b) Sunset of Military Selective Service Act.--The Military 
     Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. 3801 et seq.) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new section:
       ``Sec. 23. This Act and the requirements of this Act shall 
     cease to be in effect on the date that is three years after 
     the date of the enactment of this National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017.''.
       (c) Transfers in Connection With Sunset.--
       (1) Prohibition on reestablishment of ossr.--
     Notwithstanding the proviso in section 10(a)(4) of the 
     Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. 3809(a)(4)), the 
     Office of Selective Service Records shall not be 
     reestablished after the sunset of the Military Selective 
     Service Act pursuant to section 23 of that Act (as added by 
     subsection (b)).
       (2) Transfer of assets and resources.--Not later than 180 
     days after the sunset of Military Selective Service Act as 
     described in paragraph (1), the assets, contracts, property, 
     and records held by the Selective Service System, and the 
     expended balances of any appropriations available to the 
     Selective Service System, shall be transferred to the 
     Administration of General Services.
       (d) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
     to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the 
     House of Representatives, and make available to the public on 
     an Internet website of the Department of Defense available to 
     the public, a report on the current and future need for 
     compulsory military selective service. The report shall 
     recommend and justify one of the courses of action as 
     follows:
       (1) Maintain the current selective service system.

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       (2) Expand the pool of individuals subject to selective 
     service.
       (3) Repeal the Military Selective Service Act and move to 
     an all volunteer force.

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