I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2230 
To address the prevalence of sexual harassment and sexual assault in the 
Armed Forces. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 3, 2013 
Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To address the prevalence of sexual harassment and sexual 
assault in 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Track It to Prevent It Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
Sec. 4. Improved climate assessments and dissemination and tracking of re-
sults. 
Sec. 5. Inclusion of letter of reprimands, nonpunitive letter of reprimands and 
counseling statements. 
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Sec. 6. Service-wide 360 assessments. 
Sec. 7. Health welfare inspections. 
Sec. 8. Review of security of military installations, including barracks and 
multi-family residences. 
Sec. 9. Review of the Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity 
role in sexual harassment cases. 
Sec. 10. Authorization of appropriations. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) According to the Department of Defense, 
3,374 sexual assault cases involving a member of the 
Armed Forces were reported in fiscal year 2012, a 
6 percent increase in the number of reported cases 
in fiscal year 2011. 
(2) However, approximately 26,000 members of 
the Armed Forces made an anonymous report of a 
sexual assault in fiscal year 2012, a substantial in-
crease from fiscal year 2011. 
(3) According to the Department of Defense, of 
the 6.1 percent of female members of the Armed 
Forces who experienced ‘‘unwanted sexual contact’’ 
in fiscal year 2012, 77 percent also experienced sex-
ual harassment and, of the 1.2 percent of male 
members of the Armed Forces who experienced ‘‘un-
wanted sexual contact’’ in fiscal year 2012, 52 per-
cent also experienced sexual harassment. 
(4) Sixty-two percent of those members who ex-
perienced unwanted sexual contact also perceived 
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some form of social, administrative, or professional 
retaliation. 
(5) Climate assessments are required by law 
and commanders at all levels must comply as it is 
their core responsibility to create a safe and healthy 
environment for the unit. 
(6) Trends in bad behavior and reoccurring ac-
tions that harm the members of the unit, such as 
sexual harassment and sexual assault, must be iden-
tified earlier through improved performance assess-
ments and better reporting by commanders at all 
levels. 
(7) According to a recent Government Account-
ability Office report, two of the primary reasons why 
members decide not to report sexual harassment and 
sexual assault incidents are because they do not 
think anything will be done about the incident if 
they report it and they think that reporting the inci-
dent will adversely impact their military career. 
(8) As long as commanders at any level con-
tinue to condone or ignore certain types of sexual 
misconduct, this behavior will continue to be preva-
lent in the military obstructing the change in cul-
ture. 
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SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act 
(1) The term ‘‘sexual harassment’’ has the 
meaning given such term in Department of Defense 
Directive 1350.2, Department of Defense Military 
Equal Opportunity Program. 
(2) The term ‘‘sexual assault’’ means any of the 
offenses described in section 920 of title 10, United 
States Code (article 120 of the Uniform Code of 
Military Justice). 
SEC. 4. IMPROVED CLIMATE ASSESSMENTS AND DISSEMI-
NATION AND TRACKING OF RESULTS. 
(a) IMPROVED
DISSEMINATION
OF
RESULTS
IN 
CHAIN OF COMMAND.—The Secretary of Defense shall en-
sure that the results of command climate assessments are 
provided to the relevant individual commander and to the 
next higher level of command. 
(b) PERFORMANCE TRACKING.— 
(1) EVIDENCE
OF
COMPLIANCE.—The Sec-
retary of each military department shall include in 
the performance evaluations and assessments used 
by each Armed Force under the jurisdiction of the 
Secretary a designated form where senior com-
manders can indicate whether the commander has 
conducted the required climate assessments. 
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(2) EFFECT OF FAILURE TO CONDUCT ASSESS-
MENT.—If a commander is found to not have con-
ducted the required climate assessments, the failure 
shall be noted in the commander’s performance eval-
uation and be considered a serious factor during 
consideration for any subsequent promotion. 
(c) TRACKING SYSTEM.—The Inspector General of 
the Department of Defense shall develop a system to track 
whether commanders are conducting command climate as-
sessments. 
(d) UNIT COMPLIANCE REPORTS.—Working with the 
Inspector General of the Department of Defense, unit 
commanders shall gather all the climate assessments from 
the unit and develop a compliance report that, at a min-
imum, shall include the following: 
(1) A comprehensive overview of the concerns 
members of the unit expressed in the climate assess-
ments. 
(2) Data showing how leadership is perceived in 
the unit. 
(3) A detailed strategic plan on how leadership 
plans to address the expressed concerns. 
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SEC. 5. INCLUSION OF LETTER OF REPRIMANDS, NONPUNI-
TIVE LETTER OF REPRIMANDS AND COUN-
SELING STATEMENTS. 
The Secretary of Defense shall require commanders 
to include letter of reprimands, nonpunitive letter of ac-
tions and counseling statements involving substantiated 
cases of sexual harassment or sexual assault in the per-
formance evaluation report of a member of the Armed 
Forces for the purpose of— 
(1) providing commanders increased visibility of 
the background information of members of the unit; 
(2) identifying and preventing trends of bad be-
havior early and effectively disciplining repeated ac-
tions which hinder units from fostering a healthy cli-
mate; and 
(3) preventing the transfer of sexual offenders. 
SEC. 6. SERVICE-WIDE 360 ASSESSMENTS. 
(a) ADOPTION
OF 360-DEGREE APPROACH.—The 
Secretary of each military department shall develop an as-
sessment program modeled after the current Department 
of the Army Multi-Source Assessment and Feedback 
(MSAF) Program, known in this section as the ‘‘360-de-
gree approach’’. 
(b) REPORT ON INCLUSION IN PERFORMANCE EVAL-
UATION REPORTS.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
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shall submit to Congress a report containing the results 
of an assessment of the feasibility of including the 360- 
degree approach as part of the performance evaluation re-
ports. 
(c) INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING.—The Secretary of 
each military department shall include individual coun-
seling as part of the performance evaluation process. 
SEC. 7. HEALTH WELFARE INSPECTIONS. 
The Secretary of each military department shall con-
duct health welfare inspections on a monthly basis in order 
to ensure and maintain security, military readiness, good 
order, and discipline of all units of the Armed Forces 
under the jurisdiction of the Secretary. Results of the 
Health Welfare Inspections shall be provided to both the 
commander and senior commander. 
SEC. 8. REVIEW OF SECURITY OF MILITARY INSTALLA-
TIONS, INCLUDING BARRACKS AND MULTI- 
FAMILY RESIDENCES. 
(a) REVIEW OF SECURITY MEASURES.—The Sec-
retary of Defense shall conduct a review of security meas-
ures on United States military installations, specifically 
with regard to barracks and multi-family residences on 
military installations, for the purpose of ensuring the safe-
ty of members of the Armed Forces and their dependents 
who reside on military installations. 
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(b) ELEMENTS OF STUDY.—In conducting the review 
under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall— 
(1) identify security gaps on military installa-
tions; and 
(2) evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of 
using 24-hour electronic monitoring or placing secu-
rity personnel at all points of entry into barracks 
and multi-family residences on military installation. 
(c) SUBMISSION OF RESULTS.—Not later than 90 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report con-
taining the results of the study conducted under sub-
section (a), including an estimate of the costs— 
(1) to eliminate all security gaps identified 
under subsection (b)(1); and 
(2) to provide 24-hour security monitoring as 
evaluated under subsection (b)(2). 
SEC. 9. REVIEW OF THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY MANAGE-
MENT AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ROLE IN 
SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASES. 
(a) REVIEW REQUIRED.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall conduct a review of the Office of Diversity Manage-
ment and Equal Opportunity for the purposes specified 
in subsection (b). 
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(b) ELEMENTS OF STUDY.—In conducting the review 
under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall— 
(1) identify and evaluate the resource and per-
sonnel gaps in the Office; 
(2) identify and evaluate the role of the Office 
in sexual harassment cases; and 
(3) evaluate how the Office works with the Sex-
ual Assault Prevention and Response Office to ad-
dress sexual harassment in the Armed Forces. 
SEC. 10. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary of Defense such sums as may be necessary to carry 
out this Act for fiscal year 2014. 
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