US Congress House Bill 2904 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 106-2-1)
Status: Introduced on June 15 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-07-17 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Military Personnel Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Restore Honor to Service Members Act This bill requires appropriate military record correction boards or discharge review boards to review the discharge characterization of any former members of the Armed Forces requesting a review who were discharged because of their sexual orientation. Such boards to change a characterization to honorable if such characterization is any characterization except honorable. The Department of Defense (DOD) shall ensure that any such changes are carried out consistently and uniformly across the military departments using specified criteria, including that: (1) the original discharge was based on the policy of Don't Ask Don't Tell (as in effect before it was repealed pursuant to the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010) or a similar earlier policy; and (2) the discharge characterization will be changed if, with respect to the original discharge, there were no aggravating circumstances that would have independently led to any discharge characterization except honorable. The bill prohibits "aggravating circumstances" from including: (1) an offense of sodomy committed by the member against a consenting person of the same sex; or (2) statements, consensual sexual conduct, or consensual acts relating to sexual orientation or identity, or the disclosure of such statements, conduct, or acts, that were prohibited at the time of discharge but that became permitted after such discharge. Each military department shall ensure that oral historians of the department: (1) review discharges between World War II and September 2011 based on sexual orientation, and (2) receive oral testimony of individuals who personally experienced discrimination and discharge because of actual or perceived sexual orientation so that such testimony may serve as an official record of such discriminatory policies and their impact on American lives. Specified military personnel records and discharge forms must be reissued in a manner that shall not reflect the sexual orientation of the member.

Restore Honor to Service Members Act

Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Ruben Gallego [D-AZ]	Rep. Luis Correa [D-CA]	Rep. Nanette Barragan [D-CA]
Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]	Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Lisa Rochester [D-DE]
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA]	Rep. Anthony Brown [D-MD]	Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]
Rep. Tony Cardenas [D-CA]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]
Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]
Rep. Charlie Crist [D-FL]	Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]	Rep. Carlos Curbelo [R-FL]	Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA]
Rep. John Delaney [D-MD]	Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]
Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Elizabeth Esty [D-CT]	Rep. Bill Foster [D-IL]
Rep. Lois Frankel [D-FL]	Rep. Al Green [D-TX]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Colleen Hanabusa [D-HI]
Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA]	Rep. Brian Higgins [D-NY]	Rep. James Himes [D-CT]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Pramila Jayapal [D-WA]	Rep. William Keating [D-MA]	Rep. Robin Kelly [D-IL]
Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]	Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]	Rep. Ruben Kihuen [D-NV]	Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]
Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. Al Lawson [D-FL]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]
Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]	Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY]
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]	Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]
Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]
Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]	Rep. Stephanie Murphy [D-FL]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]
Rep. Richard Nolan [D-MN]	Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ]	Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]	Rep. Frank Pallone [D-NJ]
Rep. Jimmy Panetta [D-CA]	Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]
Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]	Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R-FL]
Rep. Raul Ruiz [D-CA]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]
Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Bradley Schneider [D-IL]	Rep. Kurt Schrader [D-OR]
Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. David Scott [D-GA]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]	Rep. Darren Soto [D-FL]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]	Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]
Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]
Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]	Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]
Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]	Rep. Robert Brady [D-PA]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Linda Sanchez [D-CA]
Rep. Pete Aguilar [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-07-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
2017-06-15	House	Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
2017-06-15	House	Introduced in House

SB1366 (Related) 2017-06-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2904/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr2904/BILLS-115hr2904ih.pdf