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HR5046119th CongressWALLET

Restoring Merit in the Military Service Academies Act

Sponsored By: Representative Mace, Nancy [R-SC-1]

Introduced

Summary

This bill would shift service-academy admissions to a single, uniform merit system based on a standardized candidate composite score. It would constrain subjective adjustments, ban consideration of race, sex, color, ethnicity, national origin, or religion, and add new transparency rules for how candidates are chosen.

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  • Prospective applicants and families: Admissions would be determined by a candidate composite score that weights academics at not less than 60 percent and college entrance examination rank (CEER) at not less than 45 percent. Subjective components would count for no more than 10 percent and any subjective adjustment could change an unadjusted score by at most 10 percent.
  • Service Secretaries and the academies: Each academy would have a fixed annual slate of 300 alternates selected in order of composite score. The composite-score rules would apply to both primary appointments and additional appointments and would determine ranking and selection order.
  • Oversight and transparency: Each Service Secretary would file an annual report to the congressional defense committees with detailed admissions data. Reports must show low and high composite and CEER scores among appointees and non-selected nominees, waiver rationales, waiver outcomes, and four-year cadet outcome data.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

No demographics in USAFA admissions

If enacted, the Air Force Academy could not consider your race, sex, color, ethnicity, national origin, or religion. This would apply when officials decide whom to admit.

Merit rules for extra USAFA slots

This bill would change who can get extra Air Force Academy appointments. Only applicants who were eligible and competed for a nomination, but did not win one, would be considered. The same candidate composite score rules would apply to these extra slots.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Mace, Nancy [R-SC-1]

SC • R

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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