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(1) to recognize the important and integral role
played by members of the Active Guard and Reserve
and military technicians (dual status) in the efforts
of the Armed Forces; and
(2) to urge the Secretary of Defense to promptly
resolve issues relating to appropriate authority for
payment of reenlistment bonuses stemming from reen-
listment contracts entered into between January 14,
2005, and April 17, 2005, involving members of the
Army National Guard and military technicians (dual
status).
Subtitle D—Military Justice and
Related Matters
SEC. 551. MODIFICATION OF PERIODS OF PROSECUTION BY
COURTS-MARTIAL FOR MURDER, RAPE, AND
CHILD ABUSE.
(a) UNLIMITED PERIOD FOR MURDER AND RAPE.—
Subsection (a) of section 843 of title 10, United States Code
(article 43 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice), is
amended by striking ‘‘or with any offense’’ and inserting
‘‘with murder or rape, or with any other offense’’.
(b) EXTENDED PERIOD
FOR CHILD ABUSE.—Sub-
section (b)(2) of such section (article) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘before the
child attains the age of 25 years’’ and all that follows
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through the period and inserting ‘‘by an officer exer-
cising summary court-martial jurisdiction with re-
spect to that person during the life of the victim or
the date that is five years after the date of the offense,
whichever is the later date.’’;
(2) in subparagraph (B)—
(A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by
striking ‘‘sexual or physical’’; and
(B) in clause (v), by striking ‘‘Indecent as-
sault,’’ and inserting ‘‘Kidnapping, indecent as-
sault,’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph:
‘‘(C) In subparagraph (A), the term ‘child abuse of-
fense’ also includes an act that involves abuse of a person
who has not attained the age of 18 years and would con-
stitute an offense under chapter 110 or 117 or section 1591
of title 18.’’.
SEC. 552. ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFENSE OF STALKING.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFENSE.—Subchapter X of
chapter 47 of title 10, United States Code (the Uniform
Code of Military Justice), is amended by inserting after sec-
tion 893 (article 93) the following new section (article):
‘‘§ 893a. Art. 93a. Stalking
‘‘(a) Any person subject to this chapter—
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‘‘(1) who wrongfully engages in a course of con-
duct directed at a specific person that would cause a
reasonable person to fear death or bodily harm, in-
cluding sexual assault, to himself or herself or a mem-
ber of his or her immediate family;
‘‘(2) who has knowledge, or should have knowl-
edge, that the specific person will be placed in reason-
able fear of death or bodily harm, including sexual
assault, to himself or herself or a member of his or her
immediate family; and
‘‘(3) whose acts induce reasonable fear in the
specific person of death or bodily harm, including sex-
ual assault, to himself or herself or to a member of
his or her immediate family,
is guilty of stalking and shall be punished as a court-mar-
tial may direct.
‘‘(b) For purposes of this section:
‘‘(1) The term ‘course of conduct’ means—
‘‘(A) a repeated maintenance of visual or
physical proximity to a specific person; or
‘‘(B) a repeated conveyance of verbal threat,
written threats, or threats implied by conduct, or
a combination of such threats, directed at or to-
ward a specific person.
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‘‘(2) The term ‘repeated’, with respect to conduct,
means two or more occasions of such conduct.
‘‘(3) The term ‘immediate family’, in the case of
a specific person, means a spouse, parent, child, or
sibling of the person, or any other family member or
relative of the person who regularly resides in the
household of the person or who within the six months
preceding the commencement of the course of conduct
regularly resided in the household of the person.’’.
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections at
the beginning of subchapter X of such chapter is amended
by inserting after the item relating to section 893 (article
93) the following new item:
‘‘893a. Art. 93a. Stalking.’’.
SEC. 553. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY OF MILITARY
LEGAL ASSISTANCE COUNSEL.
Section 1044 of title 10, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection
(e); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following
new subsection (d):
‘‘(d)(1) Notwithstanding any law regarding the licen-
sure of attorneys, a judge advocate or civilian attorney who
is authorized to provide military legal assistance is author-
ized to provide that assistance in any jurisdiction, subject