This database includes federal, state, and local laws, proposed legislation, budget impact statements,
regulations, and more as jurisdictions implement forensic DNA policies and procedures.
March 26, 2025
Extends Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s prior $3 million DNA testing appropriation through June 30, 2026, and authorizes external lab contracts…
March 10, 2023
Expanded postconviction DNA testing by amending C.R.S. § 18-1-411.
March 11, 2011
Amended the expungement provisions of the 2009 arrestee statute, removing the ‘title 18’ qualifier so that conviction of any felony…
September 30, 2010
Created Article 23 of Title 16 (§ 16-23-103), the arrestee mandate (‘Katie’s Law’), requiring DNA collection from all adults arrested…
May 31, 2007
Repealed and reenacted § 16-11-102.4; extended collection to offenders in DOC custody before July 1, 2007, county jails, community corrections,…
June 6, 2006
First major consolidation and expansion; repealed § 16-11-102.3 and scattered provisions and replaced them with § 16-11-102.4, mandating DNA collection…
May 26, 2000
Created § 16-11-102.3, Colorado’s original DNA database statute; required blood-sample collection and CBI testing from offenders convicted of sex offenses,…
May 26, 2000
Companion bill to SB 00-121; expanded the genetic testing framework by amending §§ 16-11-204.3, 16-11-104, 16-11-308, and 17-22.5-202 to add…