This database includes federal, state, and local laws, proposed legislation, budget impact statements,
regulations, and more as jurisdictions implement forensic DNA policies and procedures.
October 1, 2025
‘Statewide DNA Database System, DNA Collection, and Penalties – Alterations’; ties DNA collection to sex offender registration, with samples not…
April 8, 2025
Companion bill to SB 202 (Ch. 92); requires DNA sample collection from individuals required to register as sex offenders, sets…
May 30, 2021
Enacted Md. Code Ann., Pub. Safety § 2-507 — one of the first two state forensic genetic genealogy statutes in…
January 1, 2009
Authorized pre-conviction (arrestee) DNA collection in Maryland — a threshold most states had not adopted — by amending Public Safety…
December 17, 2007
Maryland State Police Crime Laboratory rule on collecting samples. A DNA sample must be collected from an individual charged with…
May 26, 2005
Companion to HB 240; added the circuit courtroom as a collection location and allowed DNA to be taken at sentencing,…
May 26, 2005
Companion bill to SB 213 (Ch. 448); amended Public Safety Article § 2-504 to authorize DNA sample collection at the…
May 10, 2005
Removed the funding contingency; deleted the condition that DNA collection was required only ‘if adequate funds are appropriated,’ making collection…
April 13, 2004
Technical cleanup; fixed cross-references and made conforming amendments in the Public Safety Article after the 2003 recodification. (Emergency bill.)
May 13, 2003
Expanded retroactive reach; required people convicted of qualifying crimes before October 1, 2003 who were still incarcerated as of October…
April 8, 2003
Housekeeping recodification; moved the DNA statutes from the old Article 88B into the new Public Safety Article, renumbering to §…
May 26, 1994
Original enactment of Maryland’s statewide DNA database program, then codified in Article 88B (Department of State Police). The bill number…