California Penal Code

§ 680.4

PEN § 680.4 Effective Jan 1, 2024Title 17 · Part 1

Statute text

(a)Each law enforcement agency, medical facility, public crime laboratory, and any other entity that receives, maintains, stores, or preserves sexual assault evidence kits shall participate in an audit of all untested sexual assault kits in their possession pursuant to this section.

(b)No later than July 1, 2026, each law enforcement agency and public crime laboratory subject to subdivision (a) shall create a record in the SAFE-T database, pursuant to Section 680.3, for every victim sexual assault kit in their possession that has not had DNA testing completed as of July 1, 2026.

(1)If a medical facility submitted selected evidence samples directly to a crime laboratory under a rapid turnaround DNA program, and those samples have been taken through the DNA testing process, the entire sexual assault kit shall be considered tested for the purposes of this section.

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Legislative history

Repealed and added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 715, Sec. 4. (SB 464) Effective January 1, 2024.