JASPER BALSOMO
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AN ACT TO: Have females between the ages of 18 and 25 register with Selective Service within 30 days
of their 18th birthday.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE YMCA YOUTH LEGISLATURE OF LOUISIANA
SECTION I
Currently, in the state of Louisiana and all other states, only male citizens and foreign males between the
ages of 18 and 25 are required to register with Selective Service. Female citizens and foreign females
between the ages of 18 and 25, with the enactment of this bill, are now required and must register with
Selective Services within 30 days of one’s 18th birthday. The foreign individuals required to register
include:
1. Foreign individuals include refugees
2. dual citizens
3. Green Card holders
4. Illegal immigrants.
This bill, in a simple representation is the theory of equal rights and equal responsibility but at the same
time, we live in a society that changes according to evolution and not revolution.
SECTION II
Persons registered with Selective Service
Pregnant persons and persons fifteen (15) weeks after labor during the time of a draft may be excused
If two persons are married and have children, one person in said marriage is excused.
Draft lottery will now be determined by both gender and birthdays in which persons are called up by the
Selective Service. The order of persons being called will now be the following;
Men who has their twentieth (20th) birthday fall during the year of the induction, followed by men
aged in the order of twenty-one (21), twenty-two (22), twenty-three (23), twenty-four (24), twenty-five
(25), nineteen (19) , and eighteen (18) respectively. When no more male persons are available and more
persons are somehow needed, the list of persons being called will then continue to female persons at the
same order.
If lottery were to take place and a female person is selected, that female person may be exempted if and
only if a non-selected, registered male were to take place of said female person.
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No funding required and day of women required to register with Selective Service will start on August 18
2012
SECTION III
All previous laws, benefits and procedures associated with the Selective Service, including Proclamation
4771 Registration under the Military Selective Service Act, now applies to both females and males.
Failure to register with Selective Service will cause one to lose Student Financial Aids (Federal Pell
Grants, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, Direct Stafford Loans/Plus Loans,
National Direct Student Loans, College Work Study), to have denied access to programs that can train one
seeking vocational employment and denied jobs under the Executive Branch of the Federal government or
the U.S. Postal Service.
If prosecuted and convicted of failing to register, one may be fined of $250,000 and possibly face up to 5
years in prison.
SECTION IV
If any provision of the Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid the
invalidity does not affect the other provisions or applications of the Act which can be given effect without
the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of the Act are severable.
SECTION V
All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.