COVID-19 Military Mandate Transparency Act

The COVID-19 Military Mandate Transparency Act requires the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study and submit a report detailing how service members were affected by the military's COVID-19 vaccination mandate. Specifically, the bill mandates data collection on individuals separated between August 2021 and January 2023 due to vaccine refusal, including statistics on religious exemptions, reinstatements under Executive Order 14184, and the transfer of education benefits to dependents. The resulting report must be broken down by branch of service, component status, rank, and discharge characterization, and it must include an analysis of the budgetary impact of allowing dependents to use these transferred benefits. Once completed, the report will be made publicly available on the Department of Defense website to provide transparency regarding the outcomes of the vaccination mandate policy.