Directs an inventory and report of all untested sexual offense collection kits by law enforcement agencies to the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services; directs the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services to report on such inventory to the legislature no later than six months from the date of enactment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9185
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK, MONTESANO, SIMANOWITZ, SEPULVEDA, RICHARD-
SON, PALMESANO, RUSSELL, CRESPO, AUBRY, BLAKE, SIMON, CAHILL, HARRIS,
RIVERA, PICHARDO, KAMINSKY, MURRAY, JAFFEE, JOYNER, MOSLEY, GRAF,
SEAWRIGHT, BRAUNSTEIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN,
CERETTO, COOK, CROUCH, ENGLEBRIGHT, LAWRENCE, McKEVITT -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to direct an inventory and report of all untested sexual offense
collection kits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. All local and state law enforcement agencies charged with
2 the maintenance, storage and preservation of sexual offense collection
3 kits shall conduct and report an inventory to the commissioner of crimi-
4 nal justice services of all such kits in their custody that may contain
5 biological evidence that were collected but not submitted to the scien-
6 tific crime detection laboratory or a similar qualified laboratory for
7 analysis. The commissioner of criminal justice services shall establish
8 the form of and timeline for such inventory. The commissioner of crimi-
9 nal justice services shall receive the reports from such law enforcement
10 agencies and report the results of such inventory to the legislature no
11 later than six months from the effective date of this act.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13623-02-6
