On August 24, Governor Matt Bevin ceremonially signed Senate Bill 63, requiring all sexual assault examination kits which have not been subjected to testing be submitted to the Kentucky State Police forensic laboratory by January 1, 2017. Governor Bevin said there were over 3,000 untested rape kits in Kentucky prior to 2016. To assist in the backlog, $4.5 million in funding was requested from the House and Senate. Senate Bill 63 also requires the average completion rate for classification of sexual assault evident collection kits not exceed 90 days by July 1, 2018, and not exceed 60 days by July 1, 2020. It also specifies no evidence subject to DNA testing shall be disposed of prior to trial unless the evidence has been in custody for over fifty years; or if more than 10 years, the prosecution has determined that the defendant will not be tried and motion made to destroy the evidence.