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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Bills would fund HIV prevention, tracking, testing rape kits

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — Multiple bills that would provide protection and treatment for victims of sexual assault, as well as assist local law enforcement agencies with the testing and tracking of rape kits, made their way through the House and Senate, ahead of the Monday deadline for bills to crossover into the other chamber.

These bills are the byproduct of a January report on sexual assault evidence kits in the state, produced by the Maryland Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Policy and Funding Committee.

The committee was created in 2017 and is chaired by the Office of the Attorney General. Multiple stakeholders, including law enforcement, medical professionals, victim advocates and legislators make up the board.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

All of this is already on the books. I don't understand why Maryland keeps writing duplicate Bills? Maybe they should use carbon copy's and each year they just tear another page off.

Anonymous said...

If you have an unwanted pregnancy or HIV these days your just plain stupid and criminally impulsive.