Uniform protocols on screening for unwanted sexual behavior

(a) Guidance Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Defense Health Agency, in coordination with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, shall develop comprehensive written guidance establishing uniform protocols for providing a screening for unwanted sexual behavior to patients at military medical treatment facilities. (b) Report Not later than one year after the date on which the Director issues the guidance under subsection (a), the Director shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing the following: (1) An assessment of the extent to which each military medical treatment facility has implemented the guidance. (2) Aggregate, de-identified data on screening rates, positive-screen rates, and referral follow-through. (3) Any planned revisions to the guidance. (c) Screening for unwanted sexual behavior defined In this section, the term screening for unwanted sexual behavior means the use of standardized, evidence-based questions or instruments to detect whether an individual has been subject to any sexual contact or interaction to which the individual did not or could not freely consent, including harassment, coercion, assault, or abuse.