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Details on Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Bill

Frederica Freyberg:
And this note on the description of a bill concerning rape kit testing we reported last week. Under a proposed bill to codify procedures, we should have explained that if victims choose to report their assault to law enforcement, medical professionals will have 24 hours to report to police that they have gathered a sexual assault kit. Law enforcement will then have 72 hours to collect the kit, and 14 days to send it to the State Crime Lab for analysis.