S.Amdt. 4276

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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