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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H.R. 2810 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 532

Sec. 532. Sexual assault prevention and response

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The Secretary of the Army, in coordination with the Chiefs of the National Guard Bureau and the Army Reserve shall— conduct an evaluation of staffing approaches used to administer the sexual assault prevention and response program in the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve. In conducting such evaluation, the Secretary consider opportunities to leverage resources across all Army components and shall conduct an assessment of the number and allocation of full-time and collateral-duty personnel, the fill rates for program positions, and the types of positions used; and direct the Chief of the Army Reserve to develop and implement an expedited line-of-duty determination process for Army Reserve sexual assault victims, along with a method for tracking the length of time to make the determinations, that ensure members of the Armed Forces who wish to file a confidential or restricted report are able to go through the determination process without disclosing their circumstances to the chain of command.
The Director of the SHARP Program Office of the Army National Guard shall— communicate and disseminate its guidance on budget development and execution for the SHARP program to all full-time SHARP program personnel; develop clear guidance on budget development and execution for the SHARP program and disseminate this guidance to its full-time SHARP program personnel; and expand the scope of the midyear review to include monitoring and providing oversight of SHARP program expenditures at the Army National Guard state and Army Reserve command level.
The Chief of the National Guard Bureau, in collaboration with the Secretaries of the military departments concerned, shall reassess the Office of Complex Administrative Investigation’s timeliness and resources to determine how to improve the timeliness of processing sexual assault investigations involving members of the Army National Guard and identify the resources needed to improve the timeliness of such investigations.
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