House sponsor objects to Senate changes to statewide sexual assault kit tracking bill
Representative Bliss refused a Senate amendment to House Bill 2581 that would carve out the city of Phoenix from a statewide sexual assault kit (SAK) tracking system; Bliss called the amendment "hostile" and said it would gut the bill's purpose of giving victims a way to track kits statewide.
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Representative Bliss told caucus she refused the Senate amendment to House Bill 2581, characterizing it as "hostile" because it exempts the city of Phoenix from participating in a statewide sexual assault kit (SAK) tracking system. The original House language would require a statewide system allowing victims to anonymously track the life cycle of SAKs, including collection, storage, analysis and destruction.
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