To amend the Military Selective Service Act to allow women to elect to register for the draft.

Bill: 117-hr-5392
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Owens, Burgess [R-UT-4]
Introduced: 2021-09-28
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Latest action: action_date: 2021-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-09-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill provides that a female citizen of the United States (or other female person residing in the country) who is between the ages of 18 and 26 may elect to present herself and submit to registration for the draft.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5392 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 28, 2021 Mr. Owens (for himself, Mrs. Steel , Mrs. Fischbach , Mr. Stewart , and Ms. Tenney ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To amend the Military Selective Service Act to allow women to elect to register for the draft.

1. Authorization of women to register for the draft The Military Selective Service Act ( 50 U.S.C. 3801 et seq. ) is amended as follows: (1) Section 3 ( 50 U.S.C. 3802 ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (c) A female citizen of the United States, or other female person residing in the United States, who is between the ages described in subsection (a), may elect to present herself and submit to registration pursuant to such subsection. . (2) Section 4(a) ( 50 U.S.C. 3803(a) ) is amended— (A) in the first undesignated paragraph— (i) by inserting (or who elects to register) after every person required to register ; and (ii) by inserting (or having elected to register) after having been required to register ; and (B) in the second undesignated paragraph, by striking who is required to register and inserting who registers .