SB 43

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.