A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to conditionally suspend the application of certain penal provisions of law.

Summary

Provides that no law providing for the punishment of persons evading or refusing registration for the military service of the United States, or of persons evading or refusing induction into the Armed Forces of the United States, shall apply to any person who has evaded or refused such registration or induction since August 4, 1964, if not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, such person presents himself to the Attorney General and agrees to serve two years in the Armed Forces or in the Volunteers in Service to America, a Veterans' Administration or Public Health Service hospital, or other eligible service. Provides for the release from prison of any person convicted of such evasion or refusal to register if such person agrees to perform the above military or alternate public service. Provides for the dismissal of proceedings against any person for such evasion or failure to register if such person agrees to perform the above military or alternate public service. Declares it to be the sense of the Congress that the President grant a pardon to any person convicted of such evasion or refusal to register who completes a period of military or alternate public service. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 2610-2614)

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 8 February 1973

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