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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1986 
To provide for the assignment of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners-Adult/ 
Adolescent to brigades and equivalent units of the Armed Forces. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2013 
Mr. LIPINSKI (for himself, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mrs. HARTZLER, and Ms. 
SPEIER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To provide for the assignment of Sexual Assault Nurse Ex-
aminers-Adult/Adolescent to brigades and equivalent 
units of the Armed Forces. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sexual Assault Nurse 
Examiner Deployment Act’’ or ‘‘SANE Deployment Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SEXUAL ASSAULT NURSE EXAMINERS-ADULT/ADO-
LESCENT. 
(a) ASSIGNMENT TO CERTAIN MILITARY UNITS.— 
Section 584 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
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Fiscal Year 2012 (Public Law 112–81; 10 U.S.C. 1561 
note) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as 
subsections (d) and (e), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-
lowing new subsection (c): 
‘‘(c) SEXUAL ASSAULT NURSE EXAMINERS-ADULT/ 
ADOLESCENT.— 
‘‘(1) ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS.—The Sec-
retary of each military department shall assign at 
least one Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner-Adult/Ad-
olescent to each brigade or equivalent unit level of 
each armed force under the jurisdiction of that Sec-
retary unless assignment to other units is deter-
mined to be more practicable and effective by the 
Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of the military 
department concerned may assign additional Sexual 
Assault Nurse Examiners-Adult/Adolescent as nec-
essary based on the demographics or needs of a mili-
tary unit. The Secretary of the military department 
concerned may waive the assignment requirement 
for a specific unit level if that Secretary determines 
that compliance will impose an undue burden, except 
that the Secretary shall notify Congress of each 
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waiver and explain how compliance would impose an 
undue burden. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE PERSONS.—On and after Octo-
ber 1, 2015, only members of the armed forces and 
civilian employees of the Department of Defense 
may be assigned to duty as a Sexual Assault Nurse 
Examiner-Adult/Adolescent. The Secretary of the 
military department concerned may satisfy para-
graph (1) through the assignment of additional per-
sonnel to a unit or by assigning the duties of a Sex-
ual Assault Nurse Examiner-Adult/Adolescent to 
current personnel of the unit, so long as such per-
sonnel meet the training and certification require-
ments of subsection (d).’’. 
(b) TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION.—Subsection (d) 
of such section, as redesignated by subsection (a)(1), is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘assigned 
under subsection (a) and Sexual Assault Victim Ad-
vocates assigned under subsection (b)’’ and inserting 
‘‘, Sexual Assault Victim Advocates, and Sexual As-
sault Nurse Examiners-Adult/Adolescent assigned 
under this section’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the 
following new sentence: ‘‘In the case of the cur-
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