• eliminate the backlog in processing military DNA evidence,
• ensure that testing takes place in a timely manner,
• provide an adequate supply of forensic evidence collection kits at all domestic and overseas U.S. military installations, military academies, and theaters of operation, and
• ensure that at least one military medical personnel member, who is trained as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) or Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE), is on duty at all times in the health care facility at a military academy, domestic military base, overseas military base, and theaters of operation, except where a memorandum of understanding is issued between the military installation and a local civilian hospital.

“Rapes and sexual assaults are far too common in both civilian life and in the military,” Maloney said. “This legislation will bring proper medial care to military rape victims and will bring justice by using DNA technology to identify perpetrators.”

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