[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5249 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5249

To amend the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization 
  Act for Fiscal Year 2021 to include the Coast Guard Academy in the 
 safe-to-report minor collateral misconduct policy of the Armed Forces.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 22, 2023

  Mr. Courtney (for himself, Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, Mr. Larsen of 
 Washington, Mr. Carbajal, and Ms. Barragan) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization 
  Act for Fiscal Year 2021 to include the Coast Guard Academy in the 
 safe-to-report minor collateral misconduct policy of the Armed Forces.

    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 Academy Safe-to-Report 
Parity Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICABILITY OF SAFE-TO-REPORT MINOR COLLATERAL MISCONDUCT 
              POLICY OF THE ARMED FORCES TO THE COAST GUARD ACADEMY.

    Section 539A of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 117-283; 10 U.S.C. 
1561 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``(and, with respect to 
        the Coast Guard Academy, the Secretary of the department in 
        which the Coast Guard is operating)'' after ``Secretary of 
        Defense''; and
            (2) in subsection (e)(2), by adding at the end the 
        following new subparagraph:
                    ``(D) The United States Coast Guard Academy.''.
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