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This Concurrent Resolution urges all law enforcement agencies to follow the guidelines developed by the Malama Kakou Project, a state plan created by the Department of the Attorney General, for testing sexual assault evidence collection kits, which includes criteria for deciding which kits to test and in what order. It also requires these agencies to submit requests for testing to accredited laboratories within ninety days of receiving a kit and to follow up for results within ninety days of the request. Furthermore, the resolution mandates that the Department of the Attorney General submit an annual report to the Legislature detailing the number of sexual assault evidence collection kits collected, tested, not tested, and destroyed by each county and law enforcement agency in the preceding year, starting with the 2018 legislative session. This initiative stems from a previous law that revealed a significant backlog of untested sexual assault evidence collection kits across the state.