Public Law P.L. 119-60 — Military Draft Auto-Signup
Automatic draft signup is now law — every draft-age man is registered with Selective Service by government data matching, with no consent and no signature.
Enacted · in_force · The official record
Public Law P.L. 119-60 — FY2026 NDAA §535
Public Law P.L. 119-60 — FY2026 NDAA §535, enacted 2025-12-18. Every recorded vote below is cited to the official government record.
- Public Law P.L. 119-60 was enacted on 2025-12-18.
- 20 recorded roll calls are published for Public Law P.L. 119-60.
The instruments
The provisions
| Section | What it does | Official text |
|---|---|---|
| 535(a) — new 50 U.S.C. 3802(a)(1) | Every male citizen and male resident aged 18-26 "shall be automatically registered ... by the Director of the Selective Service System." Replaces self-registration. | The text |
| 535(a) — new 50 U.S.C. 3802(b)(2) | Authorises regulations requiring "a Federal entity to provide, to the Director," the identifying information needed to register a person — the cross-agency data matching (date of birth, address, social security account number, phone, email) that makes automatic registration operable. | The text |
| 535(a) — new 50 U.S.C. 3802(b)(3) | Requires the Director to notify a person that they have been registered and, if they are not required to be, to state "the procedure by which such person may correct such registration." Correction is available after the fact; consent is not sought before it. | The text |
| 535(b) | Technical and conforming amendments replacing "required to register" / "liable for registration" with "registered" across 50 U.S.C. 3803 and 3806. | The text |
Where Military Draft Auto-Signup was put to a vote
| Stage | The question | Date | Tally | What we could not get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senate committee | Agreed by unanimous consent — no member-level record exists for this action. | |||
| Senate — motion to proceed | On the motion to proceed to the measure — the Senate's gate | |||
| Senate — cloture | On invoking cloture — deciding whether the body may vote at all | |||
| Senate floor | On passage | The chamber acted with no recorded vote, so no member is on the record on this measure at this stage. | ||
| Senate vote | On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed S. 2296 | |||
| Senate vote | On the Motion to Proceed S. 2296 | |||
| Senate vote | On Passage of the Bill S. 2296 | |||
| Senate vote | On the Motion to Proceed S. 1071 | |||
| Senate vote | On the Cloture Motion S. 1071 | |||
| Senate vote | On the Motion (Motion to Concur in the House Amendment to S. 1071) | |||
| House Rules Committee | On the special rule governing which amendments could be offered | The amendment was submitted to Rules and never made in order, so no member ever voted on it. | ||
| House — previous question | On ordering the previous question (procedurally a closed rule in effect) | |||
| House floor | On passage | |||
| House floor — related vote | On motion to recommit | |||
| House vote | On Motion to Report the Bill Favorably to the House as Amended. | |||
| House vote | On Ordering the Previous Question | |||
| House vote | On Agreeing to the Resolution | |||
| House vote | On Motion to Commit | |||
| House — amendment exchange | On the amendment between the houses | |||
| Senate — amendment exchange | On the amendment between the houses |