Title: Selective Service Modernization Act of 2020
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Selective Service Modernization Act of 2020
This bill makes changes related to the Selective Service System and induction into the U.S. Armed Forces.
The bill requires the expungement of an individual's criminal conviction, other than for a crime of violence, upon the individual's induction into the U.S. Armed Forces.
The bill also requires that the records of Selective Service registrants are periodically updated to exclude persons no longer subject to induction into the U.S. Armed Forces (e.g., deceased persons and persons receiving Social Security Disability Insurance benefits).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5945 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5945

To amend the Military Selective Service Act to ensure that the records 
   of persons registered pursuant to that Act are updated to remove 
   persons who are deceased, receiving supplemental security income 
   benefits due to a disability, or otherwise no longer eligible for 
    induction, and to permit the induction of persons who have been 
       convicted of nonviolent offenses, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 21, 2020

 Ms. Jackson Lee introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
 the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 
   the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Military Selective Service Act to ensure that the records 
   of persons registered pursuant to that Act are updated to remove 
   persons who are deceased, receiving supplemental security income 
   benefits due to a disability, or otherwise no longer eligible for 
    induction, and to permit the induction of persons who have been 
       convicted of nonviolent offenses, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Selective Service Modernization Act 
of 2020''.

SEC. 2. MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT MODERNIZATION INITIATIVES.

    (a) Maintenance of Registration Records.--Section 10(b)(3) of the 
Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. 3809(b)(3)) is amended by 
inserting after the first sentence the following new sentence: ``The 
President shall ensure that the records of persons registered under 
this title are periodically updated to exclude persons who are no 
longer subject to induction into the Armed Forces of the United States, 
such as deceased persons and persons receiving supplemental security 
income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1381 et seq.) due to a disability or Federally or State administered 
supplemental benefits of the type described in section 212(a) of Public 
Law 93-66 (42 U.S.C. 1382 note) due to a disability.''.
    (b) Expungement of Convictions and Sentences Commuted of Nonviolent 
Offenders.--Section 6(m) of the Military Selective Service Act (50 
U.S.C. 3806(m)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ``In the case of the induction of a person convicted of other 
than a crime of violence (as defined in section 16 of title 18, United 
States Code), upon the induction of the person, the conviction shall be 
expunged and the sentence commuted to time served.''.
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