The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Cathy Wells.
DIGEST
Morrell (SB 296)
Proposed law defines "criminal justice agency" as any government agency or subunit thereof, or
private agency that, through statutory authorization or a legal formal agreement with a
governmental unit or agency, has the power of investigation, arrest, detention, prosecution,
adjudication, treatment, supervision, rehabilitation or release of persons suspected, charged, or
convicted of a crime; or that collects, stores, processes, transmits, or disseminates criminal
history record or crime information.
Proposed law requires all criminal justice agencies charged with the maintenance, storage, and
preservation of sexual assault collection kits to conduct an inventory of all such kits being stored
by the agency and to compile, in writing, a report to the director of the LSP Crime Lab containing
the number of untested sexual assault collection kits in the possession of the agency and the date
the sexual assault kit was collected by January 1, 2015.
Proposed law requires the LSP Crime Lab to prepare and transmit a report to the chairman of the
Senate Committee on Judiciary B and the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee
on Judiciary containing the number of untested sexual assault collection kits being stored by each
parish, by each criminal justice agency, and the date the untested kit was collected by March 1,
2015. Also requires the report to identify criminal justice agencies that failed to report.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Adds R.S. 15:622)