Amendment ID: H4364-2

Amendment 2

Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit Retention

Ms. Creem and Mr. Tarr move to amend the bill by inserting after the word “entity”, in line 8, the following words:- “, including a local law enforcement agency, a district attorney’s office or any other official body of the commonwealth or of a county, city or town,”; and

by adding the following 2 sections:-

“SECTION 2. The director of the crime laboratory within the department of state police shall report on the feasibility of and the requirements for establishing a single location or multiple regional locations for the retention and preservation of all forensic evidence collected in the commonwealth. The report and any recommendations shall be filed with the clerks of the senate and the house of representatives, the chairs of the joint committee on the judiciary and the chairs of the house and the senate committees on ways and means not later than January 1, 2018.

SECTION 3.  This act shall apply to all forensic evidence collected and retained for its potential evidentiary value in the investigation of a rape or sexual assault, including any such forensic evidence collected and retained before the effective date of this act.”.