403.707 Sexual Assault Response Team Advisory Committee -- Co-chairs -- Membership -- Duties

(1) The Sexual Assault Response Team Advisory Committee is established

(2) The Sexual Assault Response Team Advisory Committee shall be co-chaired by the executive director of the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs and the commissioner of the Department of Kentucky State Police or the commissioner's designee

(3) The membership of the Sexual Assault Response Team Advisory Committee shall consist of the following: (a) The executive director of the Kentucky Board of Nursing or the executive director's designee; (b) The executive director of the Kentucky Nurses Association or the executive director's designee; The executive director of the Kentucky Hospital Association or the executive director's designee; (d) The executive director of the Kentucky Association of Children's (c) Advocacy Centers; (e) The director of the Department of Kentucky State Police Crime Lab; (f) The commissioner of the Department for Community Based Services or the commissioner's designee; (g) The director of the Victims' Advocacy Division of the Office of the Attorney General or the director's designee; (h) A sexual assault nurse examiner appointed by the secretary of the (i) (j) Cabinet for Health and Family Services; A representative from a sexual assault response team appointed by the executive director of the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs; A physician appointed by the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; and (k) A Commonwealth's attorney or an assistant Commonwealth's attorney appointed by the Attorney General

(4) Members appointed under subsection (3)(h) to (k) of this section shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority and shall not serve longer than four (4) years without reappointment

(5) The Sexual Assault Response Team Advisory Committee shall: (a) Serve in an advisory capacity to the Kentucky Board of Nursing in accomplishing the duties set forth under KRS 314.142; (b) Serve in an advisory capacity to the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet in the development of the statewide sexual assault protocol required under KRS 216B.400(4); (c) Develop a model protocol for the operation of sexual assault response teams which shall include the roles of sexual assault nurse examiners, physicians, law enforcement, prosecutors, and victim advocates; (d) Provide assistance to each regional rape crisis center, as designated by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, in establishing a regional sexual assault response team; (f) (e) Develop model policies for law enforcement agencies related to handling sexual assault examination kits and investigating sexual assaults with a victim-centered, evidence-based approach; By January 1, 2018, report to the General Assembly on the results of the analysis of previously untested sexual assault examination kits submitted to the Department of Kentucky State Police forensic laboratory pursuant to 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 58, sec. 1, including whether analysis of those kits led to the identification and prosecution of suspects and the cost to society of the offenses committed by the suspects identified; (g) By July 1, 2018, and by each July 1 thereafter, report to the General Assembly and to the secretary of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet on the number of sexual assaults reported, the number of sexual assault examination kits submitted to the Department of Kentucky State Police forensic laboratory, the number of kits tested, and the number of charges filed and convictions obtained in sexual assault cases in the previous calendar year; (h) Provide information and recommendations concerning the activities of the agency or organization represented by each individual committee member as related to sexual assault issues and programs within the purview of the agency or organization; and Recommend to the appropriate state agency any changes in statute, administrative regulation, training, policy, and budget to promote a multidisciplinary response to sexual assault

(i) Effective:June 29, 2017 History: Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 52, effective June 29, 2017. -- Amended 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 58, sec. 5, effective April 8, 2016. -- Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 158, sec. 69, effective July 12, 2012. -- Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch

101, sec. 3, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 305, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 69, effective June 20, 2005. -- Created 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 20, sec. 4, effective July 15, 2002

Legislative Research Commission Note (4/8/2016). 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 58, sec. 11 provided that that Act shall be known as the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence (SAFE) Act of 2016. This statute was amended in Section 5 of that Act