[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4746 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4746

 To direct the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress a report on 
  service waivers for transgender individuals, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 18, 2019

   Mr. Brown of Maryland (for himself, Ms. Speier, Ms. Escobar, Mr. 
Pappas, and Mr. Ted Lieu of California) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress a report on 
  service waivers for transgender individuals, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Transgender Military Service 
Reporting Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON SERVICE WAIVERS FOR TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for a two-year period, 
the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed 
Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report 
identifying the number of individuals (disaggregated by the status of 
the individuals as exempt individuals or nonexempt individuals) to whom 
the following applied during the reporting period for such report:
            (1) Diagnosed with a covered medical condition--
                    (A) prior to accession into the Armed Forces; or
                    (B) as a member of the Armed Forces.
            (2) Presumptively denied accession into the Armed Forces as 
        a result of a covered medical condition.
            (3) Applied for a service waiver as a result of a covered 
        medical condition.
            (4) Received a service waiver for a covered medical 
        condition.
            (5) Denied a service waiver for a covered medical 
        condition.
            (6) Separated from the Armed Forces as a result of a 
        covered medical condition.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The terms ``exempt individuals'' and ``nonexempt 
        individuals'' have the meanings given those terms in attachment 
        3 of the memorandum--
                    (A) issued by the Office of the Deputy Secretary of 
                Defense;
                    (B) dated March 12, 2019; and
                    (C) with the subject heading ``Directive-Type 
                Memorandum (DTM)-19-004--Military Service by 
                Transgender Persons and Persons with Gender 
                Dysphoria''.
            (2) The term ``covered medical condition'' means--
                    (A) gender dysphoria;
                    (B) gender transition treatment; or
                    (C) any other condition related to gender dysphoria 
                or gender transition treatment.
            (3) The term ``reporting period'' means, with respect to a 
        report submitted under subsection (a), the calendar year most 
        recently completed before the date on which such report is to 
        be submitted.
            (4) The term ``service waiver'' includes a waiver--
                    (A) for accession into the Armed Forces;
                    (B) to continue service in the Armed Forces; or
                    (C) to otherwise permit service in the Armed 
                Forces.
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