Fairness for Rape Kit Backlog Survivors Act of 2021
This bill requires state victim compensation programs, as a condition of receiving certain grants, to waive deadlines to file for compensation in cases where a victim failed to meet the deadline due to delays in testing biological material collected as evidence related to a sexual offense.
To amend the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to ensure crime victims are 
  not denied compensation because of rape kit backlogs, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fairness for Rape Kit Backlog 
Survivors Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION.

    Section 1403(b) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (34 U.S.C. 
20102(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (8), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph (10); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (8) the following:
            ``(9) beginning not later than 3 years after the date of 
        enactment of this paragraph, such program--
                    ``(A) provides a waiver for any application filing 
                deadline imposed by the program for a crime victim if--
                            ``(i) the crime victim is otherwise 
                        eligible for compensation; and
                            ``(ii) the delay in filing the application 
                        was a result of a delay in the testing of, or a 
                        delay in the DNA profile matching from, a 
                        sexual assault forensic examination kit or 
                        biological material collected as evidence 
                        related to a sexual offense; and
                    ``(B) does not require the crime victim to undergo 
                an appeals process to have the application of the crime 
                victim considered for a filing deadline waiver under 
                subparagraph (A); and''.
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Fairness for Rape Kit Backlog Survivors Act of 2021
A bill to amend the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to ensure crime victims are not denied compensation because of rape kit backlogs, and for other purposes.
Fairness for Rape Kit Backlog Survivors Act of 2021
Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine