{"id":93486,"date":"2021-04-07T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-representative-emily-slosbergs-sexual-assault-kit-tracking-bill-passes-final-house-committee-heads-to-the-house-floor\/"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:50:02","slug":"el-proyecto-de-ley-de-seguimiento-del-kit-de-agresion-sexual-de-la-legisladora-emily-slosberg-se-aprueba-en-el-ultimo-comite-de-la-camara-y-avanza-hacia-la-camara-de-representantes-en-pleno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/el-proyecto-de-ley-de-seguimiento-del-kit-de-agresion-sexual-de-la-legisladora-emily-slosberg-se-aprueba-en-el-ultimo-comite-de-la-camara-y-avanza-hacia-la-camara-de-representantes-en-pleno\/","title":{"rendered":"Representative Emily Slosberg&#8217;s Sexual Assault Kit Tracking Bill Passes Final House Committee, Heads to the House Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 6, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Today, <b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3120689-1&amp;h=3811099490&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmyfloridahouse.gov%2FSections%2FBills%2Fbillsdetail.aspx%3FBillId%3D71096%26SessionId%3D90&amp;a=HB+673%2C+Gail%27s+Law\" rel=\"nofollow\">HB 673, Gail&#8217;s Law<\/a><\/b>, by <b>Representative <span class=\"xn-person\">Emily Slosberg<\/span> (D\u2013Boca Raton)<\/b> passed out of the House Judiciary Committee with unanimous, bipartisan support. \u00a0Gail&#8217;s Law would require the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to create and maintain a statewide system for tracking sexual assault evidence kits from the point of collection through the criminal justice process.\u00a0 The tracking system would be accessible to survivors of sexual assault, giving them the option of opting-in for updates on the status of the evidence in their case.\u00a0 Currently, 30 states and <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington D.C.<\/span> have implemented a statewide database for tracking sexual assault kits.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg0bafleft\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg0bafleft\" title=\"Representative Emily Slosberg, Florida House of Representatives, Distrit 91 (PRNewsfoto\/Representative Emily Slosberg, Florida House of Representatives, District 91)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Representative Emily Slosberg, Florida House of Representatives, Distrit 91 (PRNewsfoto\/Representative Emily Slosberg, Florida House of Representatives, District 91)\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1482124\/House_Seal_Logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><b>HB 673<\/b>\u00a0is named Gail&#8217;s Law after <span class=\"xn-person\">Gail Gardner<\/span>, an <span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span> woman who is survivor of a vicious sexual assault in 1988 by an armed man who broke into her home and raped her at knifepoint.\u00a0 Despite courageously consenting to an invasive forensic exam, where a sexual assault evidence kit was collected, Gail had to wait nearly 30 years before her kit was tested.\u00a0 In November of last year, <span class=\"xn-location\">Orlando<\/span> police finally identified Gail&#8217;s attacker as a man who was already in prison for another sexual assault.\u00a0 That man is accused of assaulting 15 other women in <span class=\"xn-location\">Florida<\/span>, yet evidence that could have led to his conviction sat on a shelf for 33 years.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Gail&#8217;s Law passing out of its final House committee, <b>Representative Slosberg<\/b>, the Co-Chair of the Florida Women&#8217;s Legislative Caucus,\u00a0said, &#8220;I am absolutely elated that Gail&#8217;s Law has passed its final House committee with unanimous support in all three committee stops.\u00a0 There is no reason why we should be able to track a pizza more efficiently than we can track critical evidence in a sexual assault case.\u00a0 Gail&#8217;s Law will bring more accountability to the investigation of sexual assaults and eliminate the potential for evidence to go untested and for perpetrators to escape justice.\u00a0 I look forward to seeing Gail&#8217;s Law head to the House Floor for a final vote in the coming weeks and ask my colleagues to join me in supporting sexual assault survivors by passing this bill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>CONTACT:<\/b><br \/><span class=\"xn-person\">Jack Anderson<\/span><br \/>Office of Representative <span class=\"xn-person\">Emily Slosberg<\/span><br \/>(850) 717-5091<br \/><a href=\"mailto:Jack.Anderson@myfloridahouse.gov\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jack.Anderson@myfloridahouse.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3120689-1&amp;h=1386481151&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1482124%2FHouse_Seal_Logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1482124%2FHouse_Seal_Logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1482124\/House_Seal_Logo.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>SOURCE  Representative <span class=\"xn-person\">Emily Slosberg<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Florida House<\/span> of Representatives, District 91<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 6, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Today, <b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3120689-1&amp;h=3811099490&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmyfloridahouse.gov%2FSections%2FBills%2Fbillsdetail.aspx%3FBillId%3D71096%26SessionId%3D90&amp;a=HB+673%2C+Gail%27s+Law\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HB 673, Gail&#8217;s Law<\/a><\/b>, by <b>Representative <span class=\"xn-person\">Emily Slosberg<\/span> (D\u2013Boca Raton)<\/b> passed out of the House Judiciary Committee with unanimous,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}