Sec. 3. REDUCING THE RAPE KIT BACKLOG
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## SEC. 3 REDUCING THE RAPE KIT BACKLOG ###
(a)In general Of the amounts made available to the Attorney General for a DNA Analysis and capacity enhancement program and for other local, State, and Federal forensic activities under the heading “state and local law enforcement” under the heading “Office of Justice Programs” under the heading “DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE” in fiscal years 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021— ####
(1)not less than 75 percent of such amounts shall be provided for grants for activities described under paragraphs (1), (2), and
(3)of section 2(a) of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135(a)); and ####
(2)not less than 5 percent of such amounts shall be provided for grants for law enforcement agencies to conduct audits of their backlogged rape kits under section 2(a)(7) of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135(a)(7)) to create and operate associated tracking systems and to prioritize testing in those cases in which the statute of limitation will soon expire. ###
(b)Reporting ####
(1)Report by grant recipients With respect to amounts made available to the Attorney General for a DNA Analysis and capacity enhancement program and for other local, State, and Federal forensic activities under the heading “state and local law enforcement” under the heading “Office of Justice Programs” under the heading “DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE”, the Attorney General shall require recipients of the amounts to report on the effectiveness of the activities carried out using the amounts, including any information the Attorney General needs in order to submit the report required under paragraph (2). ####
(2)Report to congress Not later than 1 month after the last day of each even-numbered fiscal year, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report that includes, for each recipient of amounts described in paragraph (1)— #####
(A)the amounts distributed to the recipient; #####
(B)a summary of the purposes for which the amounts were used and an evaluation of the progress of the recipient in achieving those purposes; #####
(C)a statistical summary of the crime scene samples and arrestee or offender samples submitted to laboratories, the average time between the submission of a sample to a laboratory and the testing of the sample, and the percentage of the amounts that were paid to private laboratories; and #####
(D)an evaluation of the effectiveness of the grant amounts in increasing capacity and reducing backlogs.
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