National Guard; eligibility for service. (HB820)
Introduced By
Del. Bob Marshall (R-Manassas)
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Description
Eligibility for service in the Virginia National Guard. Declares a person ineligible to serve in the Virginia National Guard if he has committed any act that would be punishable under the Uniform Code of Military Justice where the maximum prescribed punishment for such offense included a term of confinement of five or more years and a forfeiture of all pay and allowances. View Full Text »
Outcome
Bill Has Failed
History
- 01/11/2012 Committee
- 01/11/2012 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12102725D
- 01/11/2012 Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/07/2012 Tabled in Rules
Comments
Equality Virginia opposes this bill that is an effort to bar GLBT people from serving in the Virginia National Guard.
Rape is common in the US Armed Forces
( http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/09/rape-us-military ) including gang rape, and including rape and gang rape of men. Data suggest that there is a rape or sexual assault in the US Armed Forces at least every four hours, and that this is likely serious under-reporting ( http://militaryrapecrisiscenter.org/ ).
Honorable Mr Marshall should include in his bill, explicitly, that anyone seeking to be part of the Virginia National Guard, should be screened for any allegations of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual violence, intimate partner violence, family violence, abuse or neglect of children or elders; and that no one involved with rape, sexual assault, sexual violence, intimate partner violence, family violence, abuse of neglect of children of elders, should be allowed to serve in Virginia National Guard without specific action of the Legislature.
Does anyone opposing this bill know what offenses under the UCMJ carry with them a 5 year imprisonment penalty and forfeiture of all pay and allowances?