Budget Amendment ID: FY2015-S4-761-R1

Redraft EHS 761

Emergency Medical Services Data Collection

Ms. Creem moved that the proposed new text be amended moved that the bill be amended by inserting, after section 122, the following section:-

“SECTION 122A. (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, all state crime laboratories and facilities established pursuant to section 7 of chapter 22E of the General Laws, and all local police departments shall undertake a physical inventory of sexual assault evidence collection kits in their possession by November 1, 2014. The director of the state crime laboratory and the chief law enforcement officer of each city and town shall provide a written report to the secretary of public safety and security not later than December 1, 2014, indicating: (i) the number of sexual assault evidence collection kits in their possession containing forensic evidence, as defined by section 220 of chapter 111 of the General Laws, that have not undergone DNA analysis, as defined by section 1 of chapter 22E of the General Laws, as of September 1, 2014; and (ii) the month and year that each untested sexual assault evidence collection kit containing forensic evidence was received by the reporting laboratory or local police department.

(b) The secretary of public safety and security shall prepare and transmit a report to the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate containing the information reported under this section on or before January 1, 2015.  The report shall include recommendations to timely process sexual assault evidence collection kits and clear the backlog, if any.”