[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2059 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2059

   To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure the issuance of 
regulations applicable to the Coast Guard regarding consideration of a 
request for a permanent change of station or unit transfer submitted by 
   a member of the Coast Guard who is the victim of a sexual assault.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 2013

    Ms. Tsongas (for herself, Mr. Turner, Mr. Keating, Ms. Brown of 
   Florida, Ms. Kuster, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Runyan, Ms. McCollum, Mr. 
McGovern, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Conyers, Ms. Pingree of Maine, Mr. Johnson 
of Ohio, and Ms. Jackson Lee) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure the issuance of 
regulations applicable to the Coast Guard regarding consideration of a 
request for a permanent change of station or unit transfer submitted by 
   a member of the Coast Guard who is the victim of a sexual assault.

    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 ``Coast Guard STRONG Act''.

SEC. 2. ISSUANCE OF REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO THE COAST GUARD REGARDING 
              CONSIDERATION OF REQUEST FOR PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION 
              OR UNIT TRANSFER BY VICTIM OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.

    Section 673(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``The Secretaries of the military departments'' and inserting 
``The Secretary concerned''.
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