A new Texas law requires law enforcement to quickly process rape kits. Under the new law, biological evidence collected from sexual assaults must be submitted to a crime lab within 30 days for testing or tested by law enforcement themselves. The law aims to prevent rape kits from sitting untested on shelves and to provide victims with peace of mind that evidence is being properly processed. The law was sponsored by State Senator Wendy Davis from Fort Worth.

1. Thursday, September 01, 2011
Hundreds of new Texas laws go into effect Thursday (September 1 2011.)
Rape kits
Law enforcers will have to more quickly test
biological evidence collected from sexual assaults.
They now must give evidence to a crime lab within
30 days of collection for testing or test it
themselves. "This bill will give victims of sexual
assault some peace of mind, knowing that these
evidence kits will not just sit on a shelf collecting
dust," said state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth,
who carried this in the Senate. SB 1636
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/08/30/3324341/hundreds-of-new-texas-laws-go.html#ixzz1WfjV0cpw
ONLINE: governor.state.tx.us/news/bills/
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