On May 30th, the Joint Finance Committee approved funding for the sexual assault forensic exam (SAFE) program by a vote of 16-0. Under current law, if a survivor is unwilling to report the assault to police within five days and exhaust her personal medical insurance, there is a chance she may be forced to pay for the forensic exam. The SAFE program will ensure that no survivor of sexual assault will be required to pay for the costs of evidence collection.
With the committee’s approval, the SAFE Program is now a part of the budget that will go to both houses of state legislature for passage. This was an important step that makes it likely that the SAFE program will become a permanent part of Wisconsin law.
You can contact to your legislators and ask them that the SAFE fund remain included in the state budget.
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