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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="2059" measure-id="id113hr2059" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2013-05-20" update-date="2013-08-12">
<title>Coast Guard STRONG Act</title>
<summary summary-id="id113hr2059v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2013-08-12">
<action-date>2013-05-20</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Coast Guard STRONG Act - Directs the Secretary concerned (under current law, the Secretaries of the military departments) to issue regulations to ensure the timely determination of a request for a permanent change of station or unit transfer by a member of the Armed Forces who is the victim of a sexual assault or related offense (thereby including the Coast Guard within such requirement).</p>]]></summary-text>
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