The original instrument was prepared by Cathy R. Wells. The following digest,
which does not constitute a part of the legislative instrument, was prepared by
Linda Nugent.
DIGEST
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 a physical 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)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Senate Floor Amendments to engrossed bill
1. Expands sexual assault collection kits to include "sexually-oriented criminal
offense".