§2519 — Title 14 Coast Guard | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary who runs the Coast Guard must work with the Secretary of Defense to use a single, consistent data system to collect reports about hazing and bullying, including anonymous reports. The Commandant must try to improve training so Coast Guard members at all levels can better spot, stop, and respond to hazing and bullying. By May 31, 2026, and then once a year for the next 5 years, the Secretary must send a report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The report must describe prevention and response efforts, how reports (including anonymous ones) are tracked, the Coast Guard’s policies and data systems, how incidents are identified and counted, and what training was given. The first report must also give three years of incident data; later reports must give the previous fiscal year’s data, including numbers, descriptions, and actions taken. The Commandant must assess training quality and tracking effectiveness, say if performance was satisfactory, offer recommendations to improve policies, data systems, processes, training, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice or Manual for Courts-Martial, and outline next-year plans.

Title 14, §2519

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(a)The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall cooperate in the establishment and use of a comprehensive and consistent data-collection system described in section 549 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (10 U.S.C. 113 note) for the collection of reports, including anonymous reports, of incidents of hazing or bullying.

(b)The Commandant shall seek to improve training to assist members of the Coast Guard to better recognize, prevent, and respond to hazing and bullying at all command levels.

(c)Not later than May 31, 2026, and annually thereafter for 5 years, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report containing the following:

(1)a description of efforts during the previous fiscal year—

(A)to prevent and to respond to incidents of hazing or bullying involving members of the Coast Guard;

(B)to track and encourage reporting, including reporting anonymously, incidents of hazing in the Coast Guard; and

(C)to ensure the consistent implementation of anti-hazing and anti-bullying policies.

(2)A discussion of the policies of the Coast Guard for preventing and responding to incidents of hazing.

(3)A description of comprehensive data collection systems of the Coast Guard for collecting hazing or bullying reports involving a member of the Coast Guard.

(4)A description of processes of the Coast Guard to identify, document, and report alleged instances of hazing or bullying. Such description shall include the methodology the Coast Guard uses to categorize and count potential instances of hazing or bullying.

(5)A description of any training provided to members of the Coast Guard on recognizing and preventing hazing.

(6)For the preceding 3 fiscal years in the initial report and preceding fiscal year in subsequent reports—

(A)the number of alleged and substantiated incidents of hazing involving members of the Coast Guard;

(B)a description of the nature of each such incident; and

(C)a description of the actions taken to address each such incident through nonjudicial and judicial actions.

(7)With respect to training for members of the Coast Guard on recognizing and preventing hazing and bullying, an assessment by the Commandant of—

(A)the quality of such training;

(B)the need for modifications to such training; and

(C)the need to require additional such training.

(8)An assessment by the Commandant of—

(A)the effectiveness of the Coast Guard in tracking and reporting instances of hazing or bullying; and

(B)whether the performance of the Coast Guard with respect to such tracking and reporting was satisfactory or unsatisfactory during the preceding fiscal year.

(9)Recommendations of the Commandant to improve—

(A)the policies described in paragraph (4) 11 So in original. Probably should be “paragraph (2)”.;

(B)the comprehensive data collection systems described in paragraph (5) 22 So in original. Probably should be “paragraph (3)”.;

(C)the processes described in paragraph (6) 33 So in original. Probably should be “paragraph (4)”.;

(D)the training described in paragraph (9) 44 So in original. Probably should be “paragraph (5)”.; and

(E)the Uniform Code of Military Justice or the Manual for Courts-Martial to improve the prosecution of persons alleged to have committed hazing or bullying in the Coast Guard.

(10)The status of efforts of the Commandant to evaluate the prevalence of hazing and bullying in the Coast Guard.

(11)Data on allegations of hazing and bullying in the Coast Guard, including final disposition of investigations.

(12)Plans of the Commandant to improve hazing and bullying prevention and response during the next reporting year.

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section 549 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, referred to in subsec. (a), is section 549 of Pub. L. 114–328, which is set out as a note under section 113 of Title 10, Armed Forces. The Uniform Code of Military Justice, referred to in subsec. (c)(9)(E), is chapter 47 (§ 801 et seq.) of Title 10, Armed Forces.

§2519 Prevention of and Response to Hazing and Bullying

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Title 14, §2519

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