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Title 10 — Armed Forces

Part III · Chapter 751 — Training Generally

§ 7420. Recruit basic training: privacy

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Army shall require that access by drill sergeants and other training personnel to a living area in which recruits are housed during basic training shall be limited after the end of the training day, other than in the case of an emergency or other exigent circumstance, to drill sergeants and other training personnel who are of the same sex as the recruits housed in that living area or to superiors in the chain of command of those recruits who, if not of the same sex as the recruits housed in that living area, are accompanied by a member (other than a recruit) who is of the same sex as the recruits housed in that living area.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999

    Pub. L. 105–261 div. A title V § 522(a)(1) · 112 Stat. 1920

    Enacted · 10 U.S.C. § 7420

    Added Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title V, § 522(a)(1), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2012, § 4320

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Added Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title V, § 522(a)(1), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2012, § 4320

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) Chapter 401 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding after section 4319, as added by section 521(a)(1), the following new section: “§4320. Recruit basic training: privacy “The Secretary of the Army shall require that access by drill sergeants and other training personnel to a living area in which recruits are housed during basic training shall be limited after the end of the training day, other than in the case of an emergency or other exigent circumstance, to drill sergeants and other training personnel who are of the same sex as the recruits housed in that living area or to superiors in the chain of command of those recruits who, if not of the same sex as the recruits housed in that living area, are accompanied by a member (other than a recruit) who is of the same sex as the recruits housed in that living area.”.

  2. John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019

    Pub. L. 115–232 div. A title VIII § 808(c)(1) · 132 Stat. 1636

    Changed · 10 U.S.C. § 7420

    Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4320 of this title as this section

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4320 of this title as this section.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) In general.— Except as provided in paragraph (2), each section in part III of such subtitle 10 USC 7401–7403, 7406, 7409, 7414, 7415, 7417–7421, 7431–7438, 7440–7443, 7446–7462. 10 USC 7481–7484, 7486, 7487. 10 USC 7532, 7536, 7540–7544, 7551–7555, 7561–7565, 7591–7595, 7621, 7622, 7624–7629, 7652–7657, 7682–7690, 7712, 7714, 7721–7727, 7749, 7771, 7772, 7776–7781, 7801–7804, 7806, 7831, 7837–7842. is redesignated so that the number of the section, as redesignated, is the number equal to the previous number plus 3,100.

    Effective date note
    Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 7420 was renumbered section 8720 of this title.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4320 of this title as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective , with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

Implementation

Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title V, § 522(a)(3), , 112 Stat. 2012, provided that: “The Secretary of the Army shall implement section 4320 [now 7420] of title 10, United States Code, as added by paragraph (1), as rapidly as feasible and shall ensure that the provisions of that section are applied to all recruit basic training classes beginning not later than the first such class that enters basic training on or after .”

Credits

1998–2018 · 2 acts
  1. 1998Added Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title V, § 522(a)(1), , 112 Stat. 2012, § 4320
  2. 2018renumbered § 7420, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(c)(1), , 132 Stat. 1839.
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(Added Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title V, § 522(a)(1), , 112 Stat. 2012, § 4320; renumbered § 7420, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(c)(1), , 132 Stat. 1839.)

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