Sec. 425. Members asserting post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury
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Subchapter I of chapter 25 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary shall ensure that a member of the Coast Guard who has performed Coast Guard operations or has been sexually assaulted during the preceding 2-year period, and who is diagnosed by an appropriate licensed or certified healthcare professional as experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury or who otherwise alleges, based on the service of the member or based on such sexual assault, the influence of such a condition, receives a medical examination to evaluate a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury.
A member described in paragraph
(1)shall not be administratively separated under conditions other than honorable, including an administrative separation in lieu of court-martial, until the results of the medical examination have been reviewed by appropriate authorities responsible for evaluating, reviewing, and approving the separation case, as determined by the Secretary. In a case involving post-traumatic stress disorder, the medical examination shall be— performed by— a board-certified or board-eligible psychiatrist; or a licensed doctorate-level psychologist; or performed under the close supervision of— a board-certified or board-eligible psychiatrist; or a licensed doctorate-level psychologist, a doctorate-level mental health provider, a psychiatry resident, or a clinical or counseling psychologist who has completed a 1-year internship or residency. In a case involving traumatic brain injury, the medical examination shall be performed by a physiatrist, psychiatrist, neurosurgeon, or neurologist. The medical examination required by subsection
(a)shall assess whether the effects of mental or neurocognitive disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, constitute matters in extenuation that relate to the basis for administrative separation under conditions other than honorable or the overall characterization of the service of the member as other than honorable. The medical examination and procedures required by this section do not apply to courts-martial or other proceedings conducted pursuant to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. In this section, the term Coast Guard operations has the meaning given that term in section 888(a) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 468(a) ). . The analysis for subchapter I of chapter 25 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 2515. Members asserting post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury. .
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