Treatment of hazing under Uniform Code of Military Justice

(a) Analysis required (1) In general The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Joint Service Committee on Military Justice, shall analyze the feasibility and advisability of, and develop recommendations with respect to, modifying chapter 47 of title 10, United States Code (the Uniform Code of Military Justice) to provide for one or more of the following changes: (A) To establish hazing as a sentence modifier for offenses where hazing was present. (B) To establish hazing as a lesser included offense under section 893 of title 10, United States Code (article 93 of the Uniform Code of Military justice; relating to cruelty and maltreatment). (C) To establish another method of codifying hazing as a standalone punitive article of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (2) Hazing definition As part of the analysis conducted under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall develop a proposed definition of the term hazing for purposes of such modifier, article, or alternative. (b) Report Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the results of the analysis under subsection (a), including a justification for any decision not to codify hazing as a punitive article under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.