[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2843 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2843

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide certain members of 
   the reserve components of the Armed Forces who are victims of sex-
      related offenses with access to a special victims' counsel.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 17 (legislative day, September 16), 2014

  Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Ms. Ayotte) introduced the following 
   bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed 
                                Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide certain members of 
   the reserve components of the Armed Forces who are victims of sex-
      related offenses with access to a special victims' counsel.

    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 ``National Guard and Reserve Access to 
Counsel Act''.

SEC. 2. ACCESS TO SPECIAL VICTIMS' COUNSEL.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 1044e of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) Designation; Purposes.--(1) The Secretary concerned shall 
designate legal counsel (to be known as `Special Victims' Counsel') for 
the purpose of providing legal assistance to an individual described in 
paragraph (2) who is the victim of an alleged sex-related offense, 
regardless of whether the report of that offense is restricted or 
unrestricted.
    ``(2) An individual described in this paragraph is any of the 
following:
            ``(A) An individual eligible for military legal assistance 
        under section 1044 of this title.
            ``(B) An individual who is--
                    ``(i) not covered under subparagraph (A);
                    ``(ii) a member of a reserve component of the armed 
                forces; and
                    ``(iii) a victim of an alleged sex-related offense 
                as described in paragraph (1)--
                            ``(I) during a period in which the 
                        individual served on active duty, full-time 
                        National Guard duty, or inactive-duty training; 
                        or
                            ``(II) during any period, regardless of the 
                        duty status of the individual, if the 
                        circumstances of the alleged sex-related 
                        offense have a nexus to the military service of 
                        the victim, as determined under regulations 
                        prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Subsection (f) of such section is 
amended by striking ``eligible for military legal assistance under 
section 1044 of this title'' each place it appears and inserting 
``described in subsection (a)(2)''.
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