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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4863 

To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide certain members of the 

reserve components of the Armed Forces who are victims of sex-related 

offenses with access to a special victims’ counsel. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 12, 2014 

Mr. KLINE (for himself, Mr. PAULSEN, and Mr. TURNER) introduced the 

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 

A BILL 

To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide certain 

members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces 

who are victims of sex-related offenses with access to 

a special victims’ counsel. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Guard and 

5 Reserve Equal Access to Legal Services Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ACCESS TO SPECIAL VICTIMS’ COUNSEL. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 1044e 

3 of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as 

4 follows: 

5 ‘‘(a) DESIGNATION; PURPOSES.—(1) The Secretary 

6 concerned shall designate legal counsel (to be known as 

7 ‘Special Victims’ Counsel’) for the purpose of providing 

8 legal assistance to an individual described in paragraph 

9 (2) who is the victim of an alleged sex-related offense, re10 gardless of whether the report of that offense is restricted 

11 or unrestricted. 

12 ‘‘(2) An individual described in this paragraph is any 

13 of the following: 

14 ‘‘(A) An individual eligible for military legal as15 sistance under section 1044 of this title. 

16 ‘‘(B) An individual who is— 

17 ‘‘(i) not covered under subparagraph (A); 

18 ‘‘(ii) a member of a reserve component of 

19 the armed forces; and 

20 ‘‘(iii) a victim of an alleged sex-related of21 fense as described in paragraph (1) that was al22 legedly committed by a member of the armed 

23 forces— 

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1 tional Guard duty, or inactive-duty train2 ing; or 

3 ‘‘(II) during any period, regardless of 

4 the duty status of the individual, if the cir5 cumstances of the alleged sex-related of6 fense have a nexus to the military service 

7 of the individual based on the membership 

8 in the armed forces of either the victim or 

9 the member who allegedly committed such 

10 offense.’’. 

11 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subsection (f) of 

12 such section is amended by striking ‘‘eligible for military 

13 legal assistance under section 1044 of this title’’ each 

14 place it appears and inserting ‘‘described in subsection 

15 (a)(2)’’. 

16 (c) CONSTRUCTION.—The amendments made by this 

17 section may not be construed to authorize any additional 

18 benefit to a member of a reserve component of the Armed 

19 Forces other than the access to a Special Victims’ Counsel 

20 under section 1044e of title 10, United States Code, as 

21 so amended. 

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