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New legislation in Washington State could end the backlog of 6,000 rape-kits statewide, and is proposing a novel way to pay for the testing.
The so-called "stripper tax" would tax the adult-entertainment industry by requiring businesses to collect a fee from patrons upon entering. The planned revenue would be used to fund rape-kit testing at private labs, easing the burden on already swamped state police crime labs.
The new bill, HB 2530, would also help victims track their rape kits through the testing process from the evidence locker to the laboratory--a promising...