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[CITE: 10USC6931]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                    PART III--EDUCATION AND TRAINING
 
                     CHAPTER 602--TRAINING GENERALLY
 
Sec. 6931. Recruit basic training: separate housing for male and 
        female recruits
        
    (a) Physically Separate Housing.--(1) The Secretary of the Navy 
shall provide for housing male recruits and female recruits separately 
and securely from each other during basic training.
    (2) To meet the requirements of paragraph (1), the sleeping areas 
and latrine areas provided for male recruits shall be physically 
separated from the sleeping areas and latrine areas provided for female 
recruits by permanent walls, and the areas for male recruits and the 
areas for female recruits shall have separate entrances.
    (3) The Secretary shall ensure that, when a recruit is in an area 
referred to in paragraph (2), the area is supervised by one or more 
persons who are authorized and trained to supervise the area.
    (b) Alternative Separate Housing.--If male recruits and female 
recruits cannot be housed as provided under subsection (a) by October 1, 
2001, at a particular installation, the Secretary of the Navy shall 
require (on and after that date) that male recruits in basic training at 
such installation be housed in barracks or other troop housing 
facilities that are only for males and that female recruits in basic 
training at such installation be housed in barracks or other troop 
housing facilities that are only for females.
    (c) Construction Planning.--In planning for the construction of 
housing to be used for housing recruits during basic training, the 
Secretary of the Navy shall ensure that the housing is to be constructed 
in a manner that facilitates the housing of male recruits and female 
recruits separately and securely from each other.
    (d) Basic Training Defined.--In this section, the term ``basic 
training'' means the initial entry training programs of the Navy and 
Marine Corps that constitute the basic training of new recruits.

(Added Pub. L. 105-261, div. A, title V, Sec. 521(b)(1), Oct. 17, 1998, 
112 Stat. 2010.)


                             Implementation

    Pub. L. 105-261, div. A, title V, Sec. 521(b)(3), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 
Stat. 2011, provided that: ``The Secretary of the Navy shall implement 
section 6931 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 
April 15, 1999.''
