Bill Text: NY A03537 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to untested sexual offense evidence kit collection reports.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 20-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-17 - held for consideration in codes [A03537 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03537-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3537 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PALMESANO, BLANKENBUSH, CROUCH, GIGLIO, FRIEND, DiPIETRO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, LAWRENCE, McDO- NOUGH, B. MILLER, MONTESANO, MORINELLO, RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to untested sexual offense evidence kit collection reports The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-t 2 to read as follows: 3 § 837-t. Untested sexual offense evidence kit collection report. 1. 4 As used in this section, the following terms have the following mean- 5 ings: 6 (a) "Forensic medical examination" shall mean an examination provided 7 to the victim of a sexual offense by a health care provider for the 8 purpose of gathering and preserving evidence of a sexual offense for use 9 in a court of law; 10 (b) "Sexual offense evidence collection kit" shall mean a human 11 biological specimen or specimens collected by a health care provider 12 during a forensic medical examination from the victim of a sexual 13 offense; and 14 (c) "Untested sexual offense evidence collection kit" shall mean a 15 sexual offense evidence collection kit that has not been submitted to 16 the New York state police laboratory or a similar qualified laboratory 17 for either a serology or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test. 18 2. By the first of November, two thousand nineteen, and every first of 19 November thereafter, all law enforcement agencies and departments 20 charged with the maintenance, storage and preservation of sexual offense 21 evidence collection kits shall conduct an inventory of all such kits 22 being stored by the agency or department. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07549-01-9A. 3537 2 1 3. By the first of November, two thousand nineteen, and every first of 2 November thereafter, each law enforcement agency shall compile, in writ- 3 ing, a report containing the number of untested sexual offense evidence 4 collection kits in the possession of the agency or department and the 5 date the sexual offense evidence kit was collected. The report shall be 6 transmitted to the division. 7 4. By the first of January, two thousand twenty, and every first of 8 January thereafter, the division shall prepare and transmit a report to 9 the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of 10 the assembly containing the number of untested sexual offense evidence 11 collections kits being stored by each county, by each law enforcement 12 agency or department, and the date the untested kit was collected. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.