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Bill would require sexual assault kits reach state lab within seven business days; pilot allows common‑carrier transport
Summary
Senate Bill 145 would require sexual assault evidence collection kits to reach the New Hampshire state crime lab within seven business days and authorize a pilot to help small or rural departments meet that deadline.
Senate Bill 145 would add a requirement that all sexual assault evidence collection kits (forensic medical exam kits) be transferred to the New Hampshire state crime lab within seven business days of collection and would create a limited pilot program to facilitate timely transport.
Sponsor Senator Deborah Ochsler told the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee the bill was prompted by a survivor's account of long testing delays and by operational gaps that left kits sitting in police departments for weeks. She said the state crime lab recently installed new DNA testing equipment with American Rescue Plan Act funding and the remaining delay is often the time it takes municipal…
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