Fairness for Rape Kit Backlog Survivors Act of 2020

United States116th CongressS-4904Senate
Updated: Nov 17, 2020

Summary

Fairness for Rape Kit Backlog Survivors Act of 2020 This bill requires state victim compensation programs, as a condition of receiving certain grants, to waive deadlines to file for compensation in cases where a victim failed to meet the deadline due to delays in testing biological material collected as evidence related to a sexual offense.

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Timeline

  1. Introduced in Senate

  2. Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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