Bill Title: To require a law enforcement agency to review its records pertaining to specified homicide and sex offenses and to forward the contents of a related sexual assault examination kit in its possession to the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation or another crime laboratory for DNA analysis based on the outcome of the review, to require a law enforcement agency that initiates an investigation and determines that one or more persons may have committed or participated in a specified homicide or sex offense or another offense committed during the course of a specified homicide or sex offense to forward the contents of a sexual assault examination kit it possesses to the Bureau or another crime laboratory within thirty days for DNA analysis, and to require consideration of time remaining under a statute of limitations as a factor in prioritizing the order in which the DNA specimens forwarded by law enforcement agencies undergo DNA analysis.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 58-32)

Status: (Passed) 2014-12-19 - Governor' Action [SB316 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

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