H.R. 10426
Backlog Justice Act of 2026
Sponsor: Emanuel Cleaver
20 cosponsors
- Alma S. Adams
- Ann Wagner
- Bonnie Watson Coleman
- Brian K. Fitzpatrick
- Chellie Pingree
- Debbie Dingell
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
- Frederica S. Wilson
- Josh Harder
- Judy Chu
- Lateefah Simon
- Michael Lawler
- Mike Quigley
- Ryan Mackenzie
- Salud O. Carbajal
- Shri Thanedar
- Stephen F. Lynch
- Suzanne Bonamici
- Yvette D. Clarke
- Jennifer L. McClellan
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Text of the bill
The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, shall establish, maintain, and update not less than annually, a publicly accessible online database of aggregated and anonymized data from inventories or audits conducted by States and units of local governments of the sexual assault evidence collection kits that have been submitted for testing and are in the possession of the State or unit of local government forensic service providers and shall include an estimate of the amount of time it takes for each laboratory, with respect to which data is submitted, to test a sexual assault evidence collection kit.