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Assembly Bill A9185

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Directs an inventory and report of all untested sexual offense collection kits

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2015-A9185 (ACTIVE) - Details

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2015-A9185 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2015-A9185 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9185

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 2, 2016
                               ___________

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:

  Section  1.  All local and state law enforcement agencies charged with
the maintenance, storage and preservation of sexual  offense  collection
kits shall conduct and report an inventory to the commissioner of crimi-
nal  justice services of all such kits in their custody that may contain
biological evidence that were collected but not submitted to the  scien-
tific  crime  detection laboratory or a similar qualified laboratory for
analysis.  The commissioner of criminal justice services shall establish
the form of and timeline for such inventory. The commissioner of  crimi-
nal justice services shall receive the reports from such law enforcement
agencies  and report the results of such inventory to the legislature no
later than six months from the effective date of this act.
  S 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

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