This database includes federal, state, and local laws, proposed legislation, budget impact statements,
regulations, and more as jurisdictions implement forensic DNA policies and procedures.
April 4, 2011
Made conforming amendments to Penal Code §§ 298.2 (penalties for facilitating a wrongfully attributed sample or tampering with a DNA…
January 1, 2010
Amended Penal Code § 298.1 in the annual ‘Maintenance of the codes’ bill, retaining that a person who refuses, after…
October 13, 2007
Amended § 296.2 as part of a comprehensive sex offender law reorganization renumbering and restructuring Pen. Code § 290 and…
August 28, 2006
Amended Penal Code §§ 296.1, 297, and 298.1 to exclude the retroactive collection requirement, change the laboratory-accreditation standard required of…
November 2, 2004
Approved by voters as Proposition 69, this initiative made two fundamental expansions of California’s DNA databank: it extended convicted-offender collection…
September 28, 2000
Amended Penal Code §§ 296, 296.1, 297, 298, 299, and 299.5 to expand convicted-offender DNA collection to persons adjudicated wards…
September 28, 2000
Added Title 12.5 (§ 14250 et seq.) to the Penal Code establishing DNA data bank provisions and repealed § 14251.…
September 21, 1998
Added Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 295) to Title 9 of Part 1 of the Penal Code — §§ 295…
September 25, 1996
Amends Penal Code sections 243.4 and 290.2 to convert discretionary sex-offender registration upon conviction of felony sexual battery into a…
September 26, 1994
Amends Penal Code section 290.2 to require that a person required to register as a sex offender provide, prior to…
September 25, 1993
Amends Penal Code section 290.2 to permit a person required to register as a sex offender who registers by mail,…