Maine legislation · 132nd Legislature
Maine LD549: An Act to Establish a Statewide Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kit Tracking System and Update Certain Requirements Regardin
Status: Failed, April 29, 2026
An Act to Establish a Statewide Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kit Tracking System and Update Certain Requirements Regarding Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kits
What the bill says
An Act to Establish a Statewide Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kit Tracking System and Update Certain Requirements Regarding Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kits" Amend the bill by inserting after the title and before the emergency preamble the following: 'Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures…
From the engrossed text:
An Act to Establish a Statewide Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kit Tracking System and Update Certain Requirements Regarding Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kits" Amend the bill by inserting after the title and before the emergency preamble the following: 'Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure; and' Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the emergency clause and inserting the following: 'Sec. 1. 24 MRSA §2986, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2025, c. 109, §3, is further amended to read: 3. Completed kit. If the victim has not reported the alleged offense to a law enforcement agency when the examination is complete, the hospital or health care practitioner shall then notify the nearest law enforcement agency, which shall transport and store the completed forensic examination kit for 8 20 years. The completed kit may be identified only by the tracking number. If during that storage period a victim decides to report the alleged offense to a …