An Act to Amend Title 11 and Title 29 of the Delaware Code Relating to Biological Evidence.
It became law on Aug 20, 2025.
- Stage
- Became law
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 23
- Latest action
- Aug 20, 2025
What it does
This Act provides protections and rights to victims of sexual assault by doing all of the following:\r •\tCodifying the core sections of Delaware's Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) testing policy, adopted in May 2022.\r •\tEnacts the recommendations of the Victims' Bill of Rights Committee (VBR Committee), established under SCR 99, (152nd General Assembly) providing rights to victims regarding information about the location, status, and preservation of biological evidence. \r \r These protections and rights for victims of sexual assault are in addition to existing requirements for DNA analysis performed by the Division of Forensic Science (DFS) laboratory under Chapter 47 of Title 29 and the…
Where it stands
This bill passed and is now law.
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Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Brian Pettyjohn
- Bryan Townsend
- Bryant Richardson
- Claire Snyder-Hall
- Cyndie Romer
- Darius Brown
- Dave Lawson
- Dave Sokola
- Dave Wilson
- Eric Morrison
- Frank Cooke
- Jack Walsh
- Josue Ortega
- Laura Sturgeon
- Marie Pinkney
- Melanie Ross Levin
- Nicole Poore
- Ray Seigfried
- Russ Huxtable
- Sarah McBride
- Spiros Mantzavinos
- Stell Selby
- Trey Paradee
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