Legislation Database

This database includes federal, state, and local laws, proposed legislation, budget impact statements,
regulations, and more as jurisdictions implement forensic DNA policies and procedures.

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OR: An Act Authorizing Physician Assistants to Draw DNA Blood Samples (SB 1548, Ch. 45, 2014)

March 6, 2014

Technical conforming amendment within a health-practitioner licensing bill; § 23 amended ORS 137.076(3)(a) to add physician assistants to the professionals…

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OR: DNA Profiling of Convicted Offenders (OAR ch. 257, div. 60)

June 14, 2002

Oregon State Police rules for DNA profiling of convicted offenders. Blood drawn under ORS 137.076, 161.325, 419C.473 or 181.085 must…

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OR: An Act Establishing a Universal Felony DNA Collection Mandate (HB 2664, Ch. 852, 2001)

July 27, 2001

Amended ORS 137.076 to require a blood or buccal DNA sample from every person convicted of ANY felony, replacing the…

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OR: An Act Expanding DNA Collection Methods and Covered Offenses (HB 2420, Ch. 97, 1999)

April 23, 1999

Substantial expansion/modernization; added buccal swabs, required thumbprint collection, expanded covered offenses (first-degree burglary and assault), applied retroactively to those incarcerated…

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OR: An Act Creating Oregon’s DNA Offender Database (HB 3444, Or. Laws 1991, ch. 669)

September 29, 1991

Created ORS 137.076, requiring blood samples from persons convicted of enumerated offenses — rape, sodomy, unlawful sexual penetration, sexual abuse,…

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