Delaware Senate Joint Resolution 1 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-5)
Status: Passed on June 30 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-06-30 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Joint Resolution requires every law enforcement agency, law department, hospital, testing facility, and prosecutorial agency to report to the Attorney General’s Office the number of unexamined sexual assault kits and their date of collection. The Criminal Justice Council will then prepare an aggregated report by January 11, 2016. The Resolution then requires the Criminal Justice Council to develop strategies which will improve the response from the medical and criminal justice communities to reports of sexual assault in the State. Author: Senator Poore

Establishing A Reporting Deadline For Information On Untested And Unsubmitted Sexual Assault Collection Kits And Establishing A Comprehensive Program To Improve The Quality Of Response To All Reports Of Sexual Assaults Related Thereto.

Sen. Nicole Poore [D]	Sen. Margaret Henry [D]	Sen. Patricia Blevins [D]	Sen. Harris McDowell [D]
Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. Helene Keeley [D]	Rep. Deborah Hudson [R]
Sen. Bethany Hall-Long [D]	Sen. Karen Peterson [D]	Sen. Catherine Cloutier [R]	Sen. David Lawson [R]
Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Rep. Stephanie Bolden [D]	Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]	Rep. Andria Bennett [D]
Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]
Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]

2015-06-25 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-06-30	Senate	Signed by Governor
2015-06-25	House	Passed by House of Representatives. Votes: Passed 40 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 1 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2015-06-25	Senate	Passed by Senate. Votes: Passed 21 YES 0 NO 0 NOT VOTING 0 ABSENT 0 VACANT
2015-06-18	Senate	Reported Out of Committee (JUDICIARY) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits
2015-06-09	Senate	Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/ac68a7bb584b437185257e5900542a8b?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/vwLegislation/SJR+1/$file/legis.html?open
Roll Call	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/55dbb6fb90dc34e985257e6f0075221d?OpenDocument