Title: To amend the Military Selective Service Act to provide that a registrant for selective service may indicate at the time of registration a desire to be classified as a conscientious objector.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill amends the Military Selective Service Act to allow a registrant for selective service to indicate at the time of registration a desire to be classified as a conscientious objector and to submit a written statement in support of such classification.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4412 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4412

     To amend the Military Selective Service Act to provide that a 
     registrant for selective service may indicate at the time of 
  registration a desire to be classified as a conscientious objector.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 15, 2017

  Ms. Moore introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Military Selective Service Act to provide that a 
     registrant for selective service may indicate at the time of 
  registration a desire to be classified as a conscientious objector.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AUTHORITY OF REGISTRANT FOR SELECTIVE SERVICE TO INDICATE AT 
              THE TIME OF REGISTRATION A DESIRE TO BE CLASSIFIED AS A 
              CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR.

    (a) Authority and Supporting Statement.--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)(1) Regulations prescribed pursuant to subsection (a) shall 
authorize a person registering under this section to indicate at the 
time of registration that the person desires to be classified--
            ``(A) as being conscientiously opposed (by reason of 
        religious, ethical, or moral belief) to participation in 
        combatant military training and service in the Armed Forces; or
            ``(B) as being conscientiously opposed (by reason of 
        religious, ethical, or moral belief) to participation in war in 
        any form and to participation in both noncombatant and 
        combatant military training and service in the Armed Forces.
    ``(2) Notice shall be provided on registration forms that the 
indication by a registrant under paragraph (1) of a desire to be 
classified in a manner described in such paragraph--
            ``(A) is not binding on the United States; and
            ``(B) does not assure that the registrant will be so 
        classified pursuant to section 6(j).
    ``(3) The Director of Selective Service may allow a registrant 
under paragraph (1) who indicates a desire to be classified in a manner 
described in such paragraph to submit a written statement in support of 
such classification. The written statement shall be in any format that 
the Director determines appropriate. The Director shall take steps to 
ensure that--
            ``(A) any such statement is included in the registrant's 
        record; and
            ``(B) the receipt of such a statement is noted on any 
        record of registration provided to the registrant.''.
    (b) Effective Date and Application of Amendment.--Subsection (c) of 
section 3 of the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. 3802), as 
added by subsection (a), shall apply to registrations under such 
section occurring after the end of the one-year period beginning on the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
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