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(B) a nonjudicial punishment authority under 
section 815 of title 10, United States Code (article 
15 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice), has 
determined that a member has committed an of-
fense in violation of the policy and imposed non-
judicial punishment upon the member. 
(d) REPORT
ON NEED
FOR UCMJ PUNITIVE ARTI-
CLE.—Not later than 120 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House 
of Representatives a report containing the recommendations 
of the Secretary regarding the need to amend chapter 47 of 
title 10, United States Code (the Uniform Code of Military 
Justice), to create an additional article under subchapter X 
of such chapter to address violations of the policy required 
by subsection (a). 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘entry-level processing or training’’, 
with respect to a member of the Armed Forces, means 
the period beginning on the date on which the member 
became a member of the Armed Forces and ending on 
the date on which the member physically arrives at that 
member’s first duty assignment following completion of 
initial entry training (or its equivalent), as defined by 
the Secretary of the military department concerned or
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the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast 
Guard is operating. 
(2) The term ‘‘prospective member of the Armed 
Forces’’ means a person who has had a face-to-face 
meeting with a member of the Armed Forces assigned 
or attached to duty described in subsection (a)(3)(A) re-
garding becoming a member of the Armed Forces, re-
gardless of whether the person eventually becomes a 
member of the Armed Forces. 
(f) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
and the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast 
Guard is operating shall issue such regulations as may be 
necessary to carry out this section. The Secretary of Defense 
shall ensure that, to the extent practicable, the regulations 
are uniform for each armed force under the jurisdiction of 
that Secretary. 
SEC. 1742. COMMANDING OFFICER ACTION ON REPORTS ON 
SEXUAL OFFENSES INVOLVING MEMBERS OF THE 
ARMED FORCES. 
(a) IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED.—A commanding of-
ficer who receives a report of a sex-related offense involving 
a member of the Armed Forces in the chain of command of 
such officer shall act upon the report in accordance with sub-
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section (b) immediately after receipt of the report by the 
commanding officer. 
(b) ACTION REQUIRED.—The action required by this 
subsection with respect to a report described in subsection (a) 
is the referral of the report to the military criminal investiga-
tion organization with responsibility for investigating that of-
fense of the military department concerned or such other in-
vestigation service of the military department concerned as 
the Secretary of the military department concerned may 
specify for purposes of this section. 
SEC. 1743. EIGHT-DAY INCIDENT REPORTING REQUIREMENT IN 
RESPONSE TO UNRESTRICTED REPORT OF SEX-
UAL ASSAULT IN WHICH THE VICTIM IS A MEMBER 
OF THE ARMED FORCES. 
(a) INCIDENT REPORTING POLICY REQUIREMENT.—The 
Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Department in 
which the Coast Guard is operating shall establish and main-
tain a policy to require the submission by a designated person 
of a written incident report not later than eight days after 
an unrestricted report of sexual assault has been made in 
which a member of the Armed Forces is the victim. At a min-
imum, this incident report shall be provided to the following: 
(1) The installation commander, if such incident oc-
curred on or in the vicinity of a military installation.
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(2) The first officer in the grade of 0–6, and the 
first general officer or flag officer, in the chain of com-
mand of the victim. 
(3) The first officer in the grade of 0–6, and the 
first general officer or flag officer, in the chain of com-
mand of the alleged offender if the alleged offender is a 
member of the Armed Forces. 
(b) PURPOSE OF REPORT.—The purpose of the required 
incident report under subsection (a) is to detail the actions 
taken or in progress to provide the necessary care and sup-
port to the victim of the assault, to refer the allegation of 
sexual assault to the appropriate investigatory agency, and to 
provide initial notification of the serious incident when that 
notification has not already taken place. 
(c) ELEMENTS OF REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The report of an incident under 
subsection (a) shall include, at a minimum, the fol-
lowing: 
(A) Time/Date/Location of the alleged incident. 
(B) Type of offense alleged. 
(C) Service affiliation, assigned unit, and loca-
tion of the victim. 
(D) Service affiliation, assigned unit, and loca-
tion of the alleged offender, including information 
regarding whether the alleged offender has been
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temporarily transferred or removed from an as-
signed billet or ordered to pretrial confinement or 
otherwise restricted, if applicable. 
(E) Post-incident actions taken in connection 
with the incident, including the following: 
(i) Referral of the victim to a Sexual As-
sault Response Coordinator for referral to serv-
ices available to members of the Armed Forces 
who are victims of sexual assault, including the 
date of each such referral. 
(ii) Notification of incident to appropriate 
military criminal investigative organization, in-
cluding the organization notified and date of 
such notification. 
(iii) Receipt and processing status of a re-
quest for expedited victim transfer, if applica-
ble. 
(iv) Issuance of any military protective or-
ders in connection with the incident. 
(2) MODIFICATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense 
may modify the elements required in a report under 
this section regarding an incident involving a mem-
ber of the Armed Forces (including the Coast 
Guard when it is operating as service in the Depart-
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SEC. 1745. INCLUSION AND COMMAND REVIEW OF INFORMA-
TION ON SEX-RELATED OFFENSES IN PERSONNEL 
SERVICE RECORDS OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED 
FORCES. 
(a) INFORMATION ON REPORTS ON SEX-RELATED OF-
FENSES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—If a complaint of a sex-related 
offense is made against a member of the Armed Forces 
and the member is convicted by court-martial or receives 
non-judicial punishment or punitive administrative ac-
tion for such sex-related offense, a notation to that effect 
shall be placed in the personnel service record of the 
member, regardless of the member’s grade. 
(2) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the inclusion of in-
formation in personnel service records under paragraph 
(1) is to alert commanders to the members of their com-
mand who have received courts-martial conviction, non- 
judicial punishment, or punitive administrative action for 
sex-related offenses in order to reduce the likelihood that 
repeat offenses will escape the notice of commanders. 
(b) LIMITATION
ON PLACEMENT.—A notation under 
subsection (a) may not be placed in the restricted section of 
the personnel service record of a member. 
(c) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in subsection (a) or (b) 
may be construed to prohibit or limit the capacity of a mem-
ber of the Armed Forces to challenge or appeal the placement