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Bill would use unallocated marijuana revenue to centralize payment for sexual assault forensic exams
Summary
Senate Bill 491 would allocate $375,000 in unallocated marijuana tax revenue to a Department of Justice program to reimburse forensic sexual‑assault examinations and create a single‑payer reimbursement system.
Senators heard testimony on Senate Bill 491, a proposal to use $375,000 in unallocated marijuana tax revenue to create a centralized reimbursement program for sexual-assault forensic medical examinations (FREPs).
Sponsor Senator Bob Phelan (Senate District 17) told the committee the bill would direct up to $375,000 to the Department of Justice’s Office of Victim Services to administer reimbursement and that, under the fiscal assumptions in the bill, the money would cover up to 468 exams at a proposed maximum reimbursement rate of $800 per exam.
Hope Stockwell, program manager for the Forensic Examination Payment Program in the Department of Justice’s Office of Victim Services, said the program currently purchases and manages evidence kits and…
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