SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN SPECIAL 
COMPENSATION TO CERTAIN RETIRED SUR-
VIVORS OF MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1413a of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘combat-related’’ each place it 
appears and inserting ‘‘trauma-related’’; 
(2) in subsection (d)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ before ‘‘The Sec-
retary’’; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘under paragraph (1) or 
(2) of subsection (e)’’ before the period at the 
end of the first sentence; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) The Secretary of Defense shall treat a disabled 
uniformed services retiree with a trauma-related disability, 
determined by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs under 
paragraph (3) of subsection (e), as an eligible trauma-re-
lated disabled uniformed services retiree.’’; 
(3) in subsection (e)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘; or’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
(B) in paragraph (2)(D), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
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(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(3) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs has de-
termined was the result of military sexual trauma.’’; 
and 
(4) in subsection (i), by striking paragraph (1) 
and inserting following new paragraph: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘military sexual trauma’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 1166 of title 
38.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) HEADINGS.—Such section is amended— 
(A) in the heading by striking ‘‘Combat- 
related’’ and inserting ‘‘Trauma-related’’; 
and 
(B) in the heading of subsection (e) by 
striking ‘‘COMBAT-RELATED’’ and inserting 
‘‘TRAUMA-RELATED’’. 
(2) TABLE OF SECTIONS.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 71 of such title is 
amended by striking the item relating to section 
1413a and inserting the following: 
‘‘1413a. Trauma-related special compensation.’’. 
(c) CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS.—Such title is 
amended— 
(1) in section 1414(d)— 
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(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘combat- 
related’’ and inserting ‘‘trauma-related’’; and 
(B) in the heading, by striking ‘‘COMBAT- 
RELATED’’ and inserting ‘‘TRAUMA-RELATED’’; 
(2) in section 1449(b)(2)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘combat-related’’ and in-
serting ‘‘trauma-related’’; and 
(B) in the heading, by striking ‘‘CRSC’’ 
and inserting ‘‘TRSC’’; 
(3) in section 1450(e)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘combat- 
related’’ and inserting ‘‘trauma-related’’; and 
(B) in the heading, by striking ‘‘CRSC’’ 
and inserting ‘‘TRSC’’; and 
(4) in section 1452— 
(A) by striking ‘‘combat-related’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘trauma-re-
lated’’; 
(B) in subsection (d)(2), in the heading, by 
striking ‘‘COMBAT-RELATED’’ and inserting 
‘‘TRAUMA-RELATED’’; and 
(C) in subsection (g)(4), in the heading, by 
striking ‘‘CRSC’’ and inserting ‘‘TRSC’’. 
Æ 
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