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  SA 3417. Ms. KLOBUCHAR submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 2410, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2015 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       Strike section 544 and insert the following:

     SEC. 544. ACCESS TO SPECIAL VICTIMS' COUNSEL.

       (a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 1044e of title 
     10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

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       ``(a) Designation; Purposes.--(1) The Secretary concerned 
     shall designate legal counsel (to be known as `Special 
     Victims' Counsel') for the purpose of providing legal 
     assistance to an individual described in paragraph (2) who is 
     the victim of an alleged sex-related offense, regardless of 
     whether the report of that offense is restricted or 
     unrestricted.
       ``(2) An individual described in this paragraph is any of 
     the following:
       ``(A) An individual eligible for military legal assistance 
     under section 1044 of this title.
       ``(B) An individual who is--
       ``(i) not covered under subparagraph (A);
       ``(ii) a member of a reserve component of the armed forces; 
     and
       ``(iii) a victim of an alleged sex-related offense as 
     described in paragraph (1)--
       ``(I) during a period in which the individual served on 
     active duty, full-time National Guard duty, or inactive-duty 
     training; or
       ``(II) during any period, regardless of the duty status of 
     the individual, if the circumstances of the alleged sex-
     related offense have a nexus to the military service of the 
     victim.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Subsection (f) of such section 
     is amended by striking ``eligible for military legal 
     assistance under section 1044 of this title'' each place it 
     appears and inserting ``described in subsection (a)(2)''.
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