Content originally published by Roll Call on May 17th, 2016.

Each amendment will get 10 minutes of floor time during the first phase of debate over how the House will prioritize spending in the fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization .  

The rule also contains a provision that, upon adoption, would automatically modify the bill to strike provisions that would require women between the ages of 18 and 26 to register with the draft. Instead, it would require a report on the current and future need for a centralized registration system for military selective service and whether it should include women.  

The following 61 amendments to be considered in the order listed below.  

The amendments may be considered separately or incorporated into one or more en bloc amendments offered by House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry , R-Texas, that may be debated for 20 minutes each.  

The committee is expected to recommend a second rule Tuesday night that would contain additional amendments.

• Thornberry may offer an amendment that clarifies that the special transfer authority in Section 1702 is subject to appropriation acts. The section requires that major defense acquisition programs initiated after Jan. 1, 2019, include only technical developments that the milestone decision authority determines, with a high degree of confidence, would not delay fielding the program.
• Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., that would increase by $82 million funding for the Surface-To-Air Missile MSE program and decrease funding by the same amount from the Atomic Energy Defense Activities, National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, Material management and minimization account.
• John Garamendi, D-Calif., that would reduce the authorization for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program by $17.93 million, the amount identified by the Government Accountability Office as in excess of program need for fiscal 2016. The amendment increases the authorization for Air Force procurement of Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures by $17.93 million to address an unfunded requirement identified by the Air Force. 
• David B. McKinley, R-W.Va., and Grace F. Napolitano, D-Calif., that would increase the National Guard Youth Challenge Program under Civil Military Programs by $15 million and decrease by the same amount funding for Operations and Maintenance, defensewide.
• Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., that would authorize the Army secretary to continue to provide for the production, treatment, management and use of natural gas located under Fort Knox, Ky.
• Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., that would require each branch of the armed services to monitor prescribing of medications to treat PTSD among servicemembers.
• Sam Graves, R-Mo., and Mark Takai, D-Hawaii, that would require the department to report to the committee on allowing more small businesses to enter the federal defense contracting market by reducing the cost to bid on a federal contract by using a two-phase procurement process. 
• Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, that would require outreach to small businesses owned and controlled by women and minorities before the conversion to contractor performance from performance-by-civilian employees of certain functions on military bases.
• Lee that would require the GAO to include in its annual report to Congress a list of the most common grounds for sustaining protests related to bids for contracts.
• McKinley and John Delaney, D-Md., and three other members, that would require the Defense secretary to ensure that every tactical missile program of the department that uses solid propellant as the primary propulsion system have at least two fully certified rocket motor suppliers in the event that one of the rocket motor suppliers is outside the national technology and industrial base.
• Thornberry that would cap the National Security Council staff at 100. The president could increase the size to more than 100 staff, in which case the national security adviser would become subject to confirmation by the Senate. The NSC currently has about 400 staff. 
• Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., that would remove the bill's funding prohibitions on the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
• Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., that would amend the Freedom of Information Act to include the National Security Council and makes the FOIA requirement effective after Senate confirmation of the national security adviser. 
• Ted Poe, R-Texas, that would direct the Defense secretary to give preference to state and federal agencies that conduct border security functions for distribution of surveillance unmanned aerial vehicles including the MQ-9 Reaper, the Aerostat radar system, night-vision goggles and Humvees as part of the department's Excess Property Program.
• Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., that would expand the use of the Transportation Worker Identification Credentials for access at Defense Department installations.
• Mike Kelly, R-Pa., that would prohibit funds from being used to destroy anti-personnel land mine munitions unless the Defense secretary submits a report on research into operational alternatives to such munitions.
• Ed Royce, R-Calif., that would prohibit action to impair U.S. jurisdiction and control over Naval Station Guantánamo Bay unless authorized or provided by subsequent statute or treaty, based on the unique legal history of the U.S. base.
• Walorski that would require the U.S. government and the government of a foreign country to enter into a written memorandum of understanding regarding the transfer of an individual from Guantánamo Bay. The memorandum would be required to be transmitted to the Congress.
• Ken Calvert, R-Calif., that would require the Defense Department to issue a report detailing the structure and number of the civilian workforce and contractors employed the Defense Department.
• Gwen Moore, D-Wis., that would express the sense of Congress condemning the intentional targeting of and attacks against medical facilities and medical providers in Syria.
• J. Randy Forbes, R-Va., that would require the Defense Department to submit a report at the end of each fiscal year listing each request received from Taiwan and each letter of offer to sell any defense articles or services under the Arms Export Control Act to Taiwan during such fiscal year.
• Michael R. Turner, R-Ohio, that would express the sense of Congress that the United States should take certain actions relevant to maintaining NATO's solidarity, strength and deterrent capability in addition to promoting NATO enlargement at the July 2016 NATO Summit in Warsaw, Poland.
• Graves that would restrict the Small Business Administration's authority to fund initiatives outside its current statutory authority. 
• Richard Hanna, R-N.Y., and Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., that would direct Small Business Development Centers to provide, to the extent practicable, cyber assistance to small businesses. The amendment would require the Small Business Administration and the Homeland Security Department to develop a joint "SBDC Cyber Strategy" to provide necessary guidance to SBDCs regarding how they can improve the coordination and provision of federal cyber assistance to small businesses.
• Rick Larsen, D-Wash., that would amend the waiver prohibiting use of the atomic energy defense funding for work with Russia to allow the Energy secretary to issue a waiver if activity will significantly reduce the nuclear threat, regardless of backlog at Energy Department defense nuclear facilities.
• Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., that would restrict the use of 50 percent of the funds for the office of the Energy secretary until he provides Congress, within 15 days of enactment, the report titled "U.S. Nuclear Deterrence in the Coming Decades," dated Aug. 15, 2014.
• Alma Adams, D-N.C., that would provide for online entrepreneurial counseling services through the Service Corps of Retired Executives program and requires SCORE to submit a study on the future of the program through a strategic plan that covers the course of the next five years. 
• Chris Collins, R-N.Y., and Brian Higgins, D-N.Y., that would require the Army to consider using cost-competitive technologies that minimize waste generation and air emissions as alternatives to current disposal methods when reducing munitions in the stockpile of conventional ammunition or B5A account.
• Steve Russell, R-Okla., that would express the sense of Congress that the Defense Department should reassess its guidelines on how it evaluates motor carrier safety performance. The Government Accountability Office found that the department lowered standards to Transportation Department standards, even for the transport of hazardous materials. 
• Jim Costa, D-Calif., that would require the Defense Department to report to Congress regarding the efficacy of prioritizing training exercises for National Guard Innovative Readiness Training teams with well drilling capability in locations in disadvantaged communities with drinking water supplies that have been affected by drought.
• McKinley that would require the Defense secretary to establish an electronic tour calculator so that reservists could keep track of aggregated active-duty tours of 90 days or more served within a fiscal year. 
• Grace Meng, D-N.Y., and Martha McSally, R-Ariz., that would require the GAO to report on admissions practices and gender composition of the military service academies.
• Gary Palmer, R-Ala., that would allow for the award of a Distinguished Service Cross to First Lt. Melvin M. Spruiell for acts of valor during World War II. 
• Terri A. Sewell, D-Ala., that would allow cyber institutes to place a special emphasis on entering into a partnership with a local educational agency located in a rural, underserved or underrepresented community.
• Mark Takano, D-Calif., that would include in the report to Congress on the direct employment pilot program for members of the National Guard and Reserve (Section 566) a comparison of the pilot program to other Defense Department and VA unemployment and underemployment programs.
• Alan Grayson, D-Fla., that would require the inclusion of information concerning the availability of treatment options and resources available to address substance abuse (including alcohol, prescription drug and opioid abuse) as part of the required servicemember pre-separation counseling.
• Mike Bost, R-Ill., that would make a technical change to the Impact Aid program. The Education Department's Impact Aid program helps school districts nationwide with large concentrations (20 percent or more) of military students by providing supplementary funds to support the education of nearly 600,000 children of servicemembers.
• Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., that would eliminate the two-year eligibility limitation for noncompetitive appointment of military spouses to civil service positions when a member of the armed forces is relocated in connection with his or her service.
• Ami Bera, D-Calif., that would require the Defense, VA, Education and Labor departments to report to Congress detailing the transfer of skills into college credit or technical certifications for members of the armed forces leaving the military.
• Jim McGovern, D-Mass., and Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., that would require the Defense secretary to design and produce a military service medal to honor retired and former members of the armed forces who are radiation-exposed veterans.
• Grayson that would require the Defense secretary to consider "comparable quality of service" as criteria used to determine partnership agreements between facilities of the uniformed services and local or regional health care systems.
• John Carter, R-Texas, that would place specific reporting requirements on the Defense Department when prescribing and distributing mefloquine to servicemembers, and requires the Defense secretary to conduct an annual review for each mefloquine prescription. It also would expand the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury's mission to include the study of the adverse health effects of mefloquine.
• Joe Wilson, R-S.C., that would modify the bill's reporting requirement regarding the establishment of a pilot program under which innovative commercial items may be acquired through a competitive selection of proposals resulting from a general solicitation and the peer review of such proposals. The amendment would sunset the required report after five years. 
• Wilson that would modify the effective date for Section 901(a)(1) of the fiscal 2015 Defense Authorization Act (PL 113-291) by extending it one year to Feb. 1, 2018. 
• Don Beyer Jr., D-Va., and four other members, that would require the Defense Department to use Lowest Priced Technically Acceptable in an effective and appropriate manner as a source selection process. LPTA is most appropriate when best value is expected to result from the selection of the technically acceptable proposal with the lowest evaluated price. The amendment states that it should be the department's policy to avoid LPTA use in circumstances that potentially deny the Defense Department the benefits of cost and technical trade-offs in the source selection process.
• Michael C. Burgess, R-Texas, and three other members, that would require a report ranking all military departments and defense agencies in order of how advanced they are in achieving auditable financial statements as required by law. 
• Turner that would require the Air Force secretary to provide a briefing to the House Armed Services Committee on the process used to include proximity to certain commercial airports as part of its Strategic Basing Process. 
• Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., that would require the Navy to specifically assess synthetic aperture sonar systems and subsequently report on whether they are suitable for incorporation on the Littoral Combat Ship. 
• Lois Frankel, D-Fla., that would express the appreciation of Congress toward American veterans disabled for life and supports the annual recognition of these individuals each year.
• Beyer that would require the FAA and the Defense Department to study possible changes to these routes and altitude caps to minimize the impact from these overflight operations.
• Dave Trott, R-Mich., that would state that the president shall instruct the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to use the voice and vote of the United States to seek the establishment of a United Nations processing center in Erbil, Iraq, to assist internationally displaced communities. 
• Filemon Vela, D-Texas, that would require the Defense Department to submit a report to Congress on the impact of cartel violence in Mexico on U.S. national security.
• Thornberry that would require the Defense and State departments to submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report containing a description of the steps the United States has taken, plans to take and will take to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character in accordance with the Taiwan Relations Act (PL 96–8). The 1979 act effectively established as U.S. policy that an attack against Taiwan is inimical to the security interests of the United States and that "the United States will make available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability." 
• Rick Nolan, D-Minn., that would prohibit funding from the Syria Train and Equip program to go to recipients that the Defense secretary has reported as having misused provided training and equipment.
• Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., that would create a pilot program to improve the ability of the Army and Air Force to recruit cyber professionals. 
• Robert J. Dold, R-Ill., that would extend the authorization of a 2014 project for barracks at the Great Lakes Naval Station in Illinois.
• Judy Chu, D-Calif., that would ensure that the Small Business Administration considers the population density of the area to be serviced by women's business centers when reviewing and selecting eligible entities for Women's Business Center (WBC) grants.
• Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., that would allow deed restrictions on former U.S. Army land at Rocky Mountain Arsenal to be modified or removed should an environmental risk assessment determine that the property is protective for residential or industrial uses.
• Pompeo, R-Kan., that would require the Director of National Intelligence to complete a declassification review of intelligence reports related to the past terrorist activities of individuals who were transferred or released from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and make available to the public any information declassified as a result of the declassification review. 
• Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and two other members, that would require the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to certify to Congress, within five days of enactment, that the chairman has approved any requests for forces, as of the date of enactment, of a commander of a combatant command to meet the security requirements of land-based nuclear forces. The amendment also would withhold 25 percent of the travel and representational expenses of the Defense secretary until the secretary certifies to Congress that there is a competitive acquisition process in place to field a UH-1N replacement aircraft in fiscal 2018. 
• McSally that would prohibit enforcement of military commission rulings preventing members of the armed forces from carrying out otherwise lawful duties based on member gender, such as guarding high-value detainees at Guantánamo Bay.