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Ensuring Military Readiness Not Discrimination Act

To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit discrimination in the Armed Forces.

Introduced Jan 16, 2025

Latest action (Jan 16, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

Referred to
Armed Services Committee
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
Issues
Civil RightsDefense
Legislative subjects (2)
Military personnel and dependentsSex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary

This bill prohibits discrimination in the Armed Forces based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or sex characteristics. Military service eligibility requirements can only be based on an individual's ability to meet job standards, not on any protected characteristics. All military personnel policies must ensure equal treatment and opportunity for all service members regardless of these characteristics.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
52 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Sara Jacobs’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • NULL $15,900
  • SPS STUDIOS $9,900
  • XENCO MEDICAL $7,600
  • THE SCOTT FOUNDATION $7,600
  • MAF LLC $6,600

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Sara Jacobs → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 16, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. · house
  2. Jan 16, 2025 Introduced in House

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  • HR 3569 — Fit to Serve Act · Introduced May 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 82%
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Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 16, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 16, 2025

Ms. Jacobs (for herself and Mr. Sorensen) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

A BILL

To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit discrimination in the Armed Forces.

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 “Ensuring Military Readiness Not Discrimination Act”.

SEC. 2. NONDISCRIMINATION WITH RESPECT TO SERVICE IN THE ARMED FORCES.

(a) In General.—Chapter 37 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 651 the following new section: “Sec. 651a. Members: prohibition of gender discrimination

“(a) Standards for Eligibility for Service.—Any qualifications established or applied for eligibility for service in an Armed Force shall take into account only the ability of an individual to meet occupational standards for military service generally and the military occupational specialty concerned in particular, and may not include any criteria relating to the race, color, national origin, religion, or sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, or sex characteristics (including intersex traits)) of an individual.

“(b) Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in Service.—Any personnel policy developed or implemented by the Secretary concerned with respect to members of the Armed Forces shall ensure equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the Armed Forces, without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, and sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, or sex characteristics (including intersex traits)).”.

(b) Clerical Amendment.—The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 651 the following new item:

“651a. Members: prohibition of gender discrimination.”. <all>

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