S.Amdt. 4669

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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