§624. Sexually oriented criminal offense data; reporting

            A.(1) By February fifteenth of each year, each criminal justice agency, including college and university campus police departments, shall report all of the following information for the prior calendar year to the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Criminal Justice and the statewide SANE coordinator as provided in R.S. 40:1228.1 et seq., within the Louisiana Department of Justice:

            (a) The number of sexually oriented criminal offenses reported.

            (b) The status of each sexually oriented criminal offense case reported.

            (c) The number of sexual assault collection kits submitted for analysis.

            (d) The number of reported sexual assault collection kits requiring analysis.

            (e) The number of reported sexual assault collection kits received.

            (f) The number of unreported sexual assault collection kits received.

            (g) The number of reported sexual assault collection kits that were untested due to judicial or investigative reasons.

            (2) Each criminal justice agency, including college and university campus police departments, shall also provide written notification if it does not have:

            (a) Any sexually oriented criminal offenses reported.

            (b) Any reported sexual assault collection kits in its possession.

            (c) Any unreported sexual assault collection kits in its possession.

            (3) By February fifteenth of each year, each college or university campus police department shall submit the report to the president of the institution's system, the chancellor of the institution, and the institution's Title IX coordinator. The chancellor shall ensure that the report is posted on the institution's website.

            B. By February fifteenth of each year, each crime laboratory shall report the number of sexual assault collection kits in their backlog for the prior calendar year to the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Criminal Justice and to the statewide SANE coordinator as provided in R.S. 40:1228.1 et seq., within the Louisiana Department of Justice.

            C. By February fifteenth of each year, each Louisiana Department of Health regional medical director shall submit his regional sexual assault response plan to the chief medical officer within the Louisiana Department of Health, office of public health, and the statewide SANE coordinator with inclusion of identified regional gaps of access to forensic medical examinations.

            D. By February fifteenth of each year, the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice shall submit to the statewide SANE coordinator the previous year's grants and expenditures towards SANE services within each Louisiana Department of Health region.

            E.(1) By March first of each year, the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Criminal Justice shall transmit the information required in Subsections A and B of this Section to the chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary B and the chairman of the House Committee on Judiciary.

            (2) The report shall also include the name and contact information of each criminal justice agency, including each college and university campus police department and each crime laboratory, that failed to submit the report required by Subsections A and B of this Section.

            F. As used in this Section, the following terms have the following meanings:

            (1) "Criminal justice agency" means any government agency or subunit thereof, or private agency that, through statutory authorization or a legal formal agreement with a governmental unit or agency, has the power of investigation, arrest, detention, prosecution, adjudication, treatment, supervision, rehabilitation or release of persons suspected, charged, or convicted of a crime; or that collects, stores, processes, transmits, or disseminates criminal history records or crime information.

            (2) "Reported sexual assault collection kit" means a sexual assault collection kit collected from a survivor who has reported the crime to law enforcement, which indicates the survivor has requested that the case proceed as a criminal investigation and potential prosecution of the suspect.

            (3) "Sexual assault collection kit" means the human biological specimens and associated evidence collected by a healthcare provider during a forensic medical examination for the purpose of documenting, preserving, and analyzing evidence of a sexual assault, and means the standardized sexual assault collection kit issued by the Louisiana State Police.

            (4) "Sexually oriented criminal offense" includes any sexual assault offense as defined in R.S. 44:51 and any sexual abuse offense as defined in R.S. 14:403.

            (5) "Unreported sexual assault collection kit" means a sexual assault collection kit collected from a survivor who declines to report the crime to law enforcement at the time of the examination, which indicates the survivor has requested that no criminal investigation or prosecution be initiated, while retaining the right to report the crime and convert the kit to a reported status at any time within the twenty-year retention period.

            Acts 2015, No. 276, §1, eff. June 29, 2015; Acts 2021, No. 439, §1, eff. June 21, 2021; Acts 2021, No. 472, §1, eff. June 29, 2021; Acts 2026, No. 724, §1, eff. June 3, 2026.