1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Military Special Victims Protection Act of 2019 . 2. Enactment and expansion of policy on withholding of initial disposition authority for certain offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (a) Initial disposition authority (1) In general Except as provided in paragraph (2), the proper authority for a determination of disposition of reported offenses with respect to any offense specified in subsection (b) shall be an officer in a grade not below the grade of O–6 in the chain of command of the subject who is authorized by chapter 47 of such title (the Uniform Code of Military Justice) to convene special courts-martial. (2) Authority when subject and victim are in different chains of command If the victim of an offense specified in subsection (b) is in a different chain of command than the subject, the proper authority under paragraph (1) shall be an officer described in that paragraph in the chain of command of the victim. (3) Construction Nothing in this subsection shall be construed— (A) to prohibit the preferral of charges by an authorized person under section 830(a)(1) of title 10, United States Code (article 30(a)(1) of the Uniform code of Military Justice), with respect to the offenses specified in subsection (b), and the forwarding of such charges as so preferred to the proper authority under paragraph (1) with a recommendation as disposition