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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 41

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Relating to: a time limitation for processing sexual assault kits. (FE)

Justice department of Sex crimes

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law contains procedures for the transmission, processing, and storage

of sexual assault kits. Under current law, once the state crime laboratories takes

possession of a sexual assault kit, it must do one of the following: 1) if it has received

the kit of a person who has not consented to analysis, securely store the kit for a

period of 10 years; or 2) if it has received the kit of a person who has consented to

analysis, process the kit in accordance with Department of Justice procedures and

then send the kit to a law enforcement agency for storage for a statutorily prescribed

period of time. This bill provides that the state crime laboratories must process the

sexual assault kit of a person who has consented to analysis within 90 days after

receiving the kit.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Behnke (R) , Bodden (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Donovan (R) , Murphy (R) , Wichgers (R)

3 cosponsors

Gustafson (R) , Jacobson (D) , Jacque (R)

Full history

  1. Feb 13, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Murphy, Brandtjen, Behnke, Bodden, Donovan and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senator Jacque

  2. Feb 13, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. May 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Murphy

  4. May 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Jun 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Jacobson added as a coauthor

  6. Nov 6, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Gustafson added as a coauthor

  7. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1