A proposal that began as a bipartisan effort to prevent future delays in the testing of kits for sexual-assault evidence in Wisconsin but that turned into a partisan fight appears doomed in the Legislature.

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Assembly Republicans handed Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul another defeat Tuesday, approving a bill establishing testing protocols for sexual-assault-evidence kits after tacking on divisive provisions critics say are designed to ensure the proposal never becomes law.

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The Republican chairman of the Assembly's health committee accused the Wisconsin attorney general on Thursday of trying to bully him into passing a bipartisan bill designed to prevent backlogs of untested kits for testing sexual-assault evidence.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul's first year in office was a mixed bag of resounding victories and frustrating defeats. He made plenty of moves to please his base but ran afoul of Republican lawmakers before his first day on the job.

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The Wisconsin Department of Justice would have to test sexual-assault kits within 90 days of collecting them under a new state assembly bill. The Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety met Thursday for an executive session and a public hearing on the proposal.

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The Wisconsin Senate is poised to approve bills that would establish new protocols for storing and tracking kits used to process sexual-assault evidence.

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The state Department of Justice's push to analyze untested sexual assault evidence kits has yielded its third set of criminal charges.

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