S.Amdt. 5910

SA 5910. Mr. WYDEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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:

At the appropriate place in subtitle G of title X, insert the following:

SEC. 10__. SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRATION NONCOMPLIANCE REPORT.

(a) Definition.--In this section, the term “selective service registration requirement” means the requirement to register under section 3 of the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. 3802).

(b) Report.--

(1) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress, and make publicly available, a report on the demographics of individuals reported by the Director of Selective Service to have failed to comply with the selective service registration requirements during the period beginning on January 1, 2002, and ending on December 31, 2022.

(2) Contents.--The report submitted under paragraph (1) shall provide--

(A) a statistical breakdown of the racial, ethnic, and socio-economic demographics of individuals reported to have failed to comply with the selective service registration requirements;

(B) a summary of which populations are most likely to fail to comply with the selective service registration requirements; and

(C) explanations for potential limitations or biases of the data available to the Attorney General regarding failure to comply with the selective service registration requirements that could affect the report or the representation of the demographics of those who failed to comply.

(3) Protection of information.--The report submitted under paragraph (1) shall not contain any personal identifying information.

(c) Authority to Survey.--If the Attorney General does not have sufficient authority to collect data or information to complete the report required under subsection (b)(1), the Attorney General may conduct a targeted survey jointly with the Director of the Bureau of the Census, the Director of Selective Service, or both of individuals reported to have failed to comply with the selective service registration requirements to gather sufficient demographic information to complete the report.