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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · H.R. 7659 (Introduced in House) — To authorize and amend authorities, programs, and statutes administered by the Coast Guard. · Sec. 508

Sec. 508. Safe-to-report policy for Coast Guard

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Subchapter I of chapter 19 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall, in consultation with the Secretaries of the military departments, issue such regulations as are necessary to establish the safe-to-report policy described in subsection
(b)that applies with respect to all members of the Coast Guard (including members of the reserve and auxiliary components of the Coast Guard) and cadets at the Coast Guard Academy. The safe-to-report policy described in this subsection is a policy that prescribes the handling of minor collateral misconduct involving a member of the Coast Guard who is the alleged victim or reporting witness of a sexual assault. In issuing regulations under subsection (a), the Secretary shall specify mitigating circumstances that decrease the gravity of minor collateral misconduct or the impact of such misconduct on good order and discipline and aggravating circumstances that increase the gravity of minor collateral misconduct or the impact of such misconduct on good order and discipline for purposes of the safe-to-report policy. In conjunction with the issuance of regulations under subsection (a), Secretary shall develop and implement a process to anonymously track incidents of minor collateral misconduct that are subject to the safe-to-report policy established under such regulations. In this section, the term minor collateral misconduct means any minor misconduct that is punishable under chapter 47 of title 10 that— is committed close in time to or during a sexual assault and directly related to the incident that formed the basis of the sexual assault allegation; is discovered as a direct result of the report of sexual assault or the ensuing investigation into such sexual assault; and does not involve aggravating circumstances (as specified in the regulations issued under subsection (a)) that increase the gravity of the minor misconduct or the impact of such misconduct on good order and discipline. . The analysis for chapter 19 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1906 the following: 1907. Safe-to-report policy for Coast Guard. .
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