NC S509

Establishes the "Victims' Right To Know Act" requiring law enforcement agencies to notify rape victims about the status of their sexual assault examination kits

Collecting agencies must notify law enforcement within 24 hours of kit collection, and law enforcement must take custody within 7 days and submit reported kits to the State Crime Laboratory within 45 days

Law enforcement must ask victims if they wish to receive further notices and collect their contact information before submitting kits for testing

State Crime Laboratory must promptly notify notice-requesting victims when DNA results are obtained, profile is entered into CODIS, a CODIS hit is confirmed, or the kit is within 60 days of being destroyed

Effective upon enactment and applies to all sexual assault examination kits completed on or after the bill becomes law