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The bill had broad bipartisan support. Even tea party darling Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) was down with it. But it stalled last month in the House judiciary committee, chaired by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), over the provision requiring local law enforcement to report the specifics of each backlogged case to the Department of Justice. Penny Nance, head of Concerned Women for America, responded that Smith's committee was about to let a trifling matter effectively kill the crucial bill. "They've got to get their big-boy pants on and get this done," she told the Washington Post.
The Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Registry Act, also known as the SAFER Act of 2012, was introduced by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in the Senate in May, and by Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) in the House in December.