I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6214 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
provide incentives to States and units of local government under the 
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program for providing 
certain services to victims of sexual assault or rape, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 
Mr. NADLER of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 to provide incentives to States and units 
of local government under the Edward Byrne Memorial 
Justice Assistance Grant Program for providing certain 
services to victims of sexual assault or rape, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Justice for Rape Vic-
tims and Improving Use of DNA Evidence Act of 2010’’. 
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SEC. 2. INCENTIVE FUNDS UNDER THE BYRNE GRANT PRO-
GRAM FOR STATES AND UNITS OF LOCAL 
GOVERNMENT 
THAT 
PROVIDE 
CERTAIN 
SERVICES TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. 
Section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3754) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(i) INCENTIVE FUNDS FOR PROVIDING CERTAIN 
SERVICES TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND ESTAB-
LISHING RAPE KIT DATABASES.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The amounts allocated 
under this section to a State or unit of local govern-
ment for a fiscal year (beginning with the first fiscal 
year that begins at least one year from the date of 
the enactment of this subsection) shall be increased 
by 10 percent if such State or unit of local govern-
ment provides and certifies in accordance with such 
standards as the Attorney General may require, that 
the State or unit of local government had in effect, 
for the previous fiscal year, each of the following: 
‘‘(A) EXAMINATION AND TESTING OF RAPE 
KIT.—A process to provide to each victim of 
sexual assault, with respect to an act of sexual 
assault over which the State or unit of local 
government has jurisdiction, each of the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(i) Examination by a qualified sexual 
assault nurse examiner to collect a rape kit 
from such victim. 
‘‘(ii) Testing of any rape kit collected 
from such victim and the furnishing of any 
results from such test to the victim not 
later than 180 days after the date on 
which such testing was requested. 
‘‘(B) RAPE
KIT
DATABASE.—A database 
developed and maintained by such State or unit 
of local government related to rape kits col-
lected, in connection with acts of sexual assault 
over which the State or unit of local govern-
ment has jurisdiction, from victims of such acts 
that complies with the following requirements: 
‘‘(i) The database, for each rape kit 
collected from each victim of sexual as-
sault, provides for the following: 
‘‘(I) Identifies such rape kit by a 
unique identifying number. 
‘‘(II) The database contains in-
formation on the date and location of 
each of the following: 
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