*HB1413.1*
January 27, 2025
HOUSE BILL No. 1413
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DIGEST OF HB 1413 (Updated January 23, 2025 12:17 pm - DI 116)
Citations Affected: IC 5-2.
Synopsis: Rape kits. Establishes the rape kit backlog fund to provide
funding for assisting law enforcement agencies and testing labs in
eliminating the backlog of untested rape kits. Requires the state police
department to provide grants to law enforcement agencies and testing
labs to help eliminate the backlog of untested rape kits. Requires the
state police department to make an annual report to the general
assembly. Provides that before January 1, 2027, every law enforcement
agency and testing lab shall process certain rape kits in their possession
that are not completely processed as of July 1, 2025. Makes an
appropriation.
Effective: July 1, 2025.
Cash, Sweet, Klinker
January 13, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public
Safety.
January 27, 2025, amended, reported — Do Pass. Referred to Committee on Ways and
Means pursuant to Rule 126.3.
HB 1413—LS 7613/DI 107 January 27, 2025
First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1413
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
public safety and to make an appropriation.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 5-2-6-28 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
2 AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
3 1, 2025]: Sec. 28. (a) The rape kit backlog fund is established for
4 the purpose of providing funds for assisting law enforcement
5 agencies and testing labs in eliminating the backlog of untested
6 rape kits.
7 (b) Funds disbursed under this section may be used to:
8 (1) purchase equipment used to process rape kits;
9 (2) process rape kits;
10 (3) hire staff;
11 (4) provide competitive wages for employees; and
12 (5) pays costs associated with streamlining the processing of
13 rape kits.
14 (c) The fund shall be administered by the state police
15 department.
16 (d) The fund consists of:
17 (1) money deposited in the fund under subsections (f) and (h);
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1 (2) grants; and
2 (3) donations.
3 (e) The expenses of administering the fund shall be paid from
4 money in the fund.
5 (f) The treasurer of state shall invest money in the fund not
6 currently needed to meet the obligations of the fund in the same
7 manner as other public money may be invested. Interest that
8 accrues from these investments shall be deposited in the fund.
9 (g) Money in the fund at the end of a state fiscal year does not
10 revert to the state general fund.
11 (h) There is annually appropriated two million five hundred
12 thousand dollars ($2,500,000) from the state general fund to the
13 state police department for each state fiscal year beginning after
14 June 30, 2025, for the state police department's use in assisting law
15 enforcement agencies and testing labs in eliminating the backlog of
16 untested rape kits under this section.
17 (i) The state police department shall make grants to law
18 enforcement agencies and testing labs, including the crime lab
19 within the state police department, to eliminate the backlog of
20 untested rape kits as provided in subsection (b).
21 (j) Before November 1 of each year, the state police department
22 shall report to the general assembly:
23 (1) the status of the backlog of untested rape kits in Indiana;
24 and
25 (2) how funds under this section were directed to eliminate the
26 backlog of untested rape kits for the prior calendar year.
27 The report to the general assembly must be in an electronic format
28 under IC 5-14-6.
29 (k) Before January 1, 2027, every law enforcement agency and
30 testing lab shall process each rape kit that is:
31 (1) in its possession;
32 (2) not completely processed; and
33 (3) the subject of a police report that has been filed;
34 as of July 1, 2025. The state police department shall notify each law
35 enforcement agency of this requirement by September 1, 2025.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public
Safety, to which was referred House Bill 1413, has had the same under
consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the House with
the recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
Page 2, line 21, delete "criminal justice institute" and insert "state
police department".
Page 2, line 34, delete "criminal justice institute" and insert "state
police department".
and when so amended that said bill do pass.
(Reference is to HB 1413 as introduced.)
BARTELS
Committee Vote: yeas 11, nays 0.
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