A health care professional shall:
- (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), after conducting a sexual assault forensic examination where a sexual assault kit is collected, notify the law enforcement agency in the jurisdiction where the examination occurred within 24 hours after collection of the kit.
- (2) When a victim chooses not to report a sexual assault to a law enforcement agency, send a collected sexual assault kit to the state crime laboratories for storage within 72 hours after collection of the kit.
History
History: EmR2207: emerg. cr., eff. 6-6-22; CR 22-060: cr. Register May 2023 No. 809, eff. 6-1-23.