This database includes federal, state, and local laws, proposed legislation, budget impact statements,
regulations, and more as jurisdictions implement forensic DNA policies and procedures.
August 9, 2025
Created a statewide electronic sexual assault kit tracking portal — administered through the Health Department’s Centro de Ayuda a Víctimas…
July 23, 2024
Amended the DNA databank law to require DNA from persons on mandatory supervised release for sexual offenses against minors, with…
September 1, 2020
Modern organic law of the Puerto Rico Institute of Forensic Sciences (ICF), the entity that operates the Commonwealth’s forensic laboratory…
December 29, 2015
Creates Puerto Rico’s post-conviction DNA testing statute. A person convicted of murder in any degree, homicide, negligent homicide, sexual assault,…
December 14, 2011
Overhauled the sex-offender registry law and added further qualifying convictions to Art. 8 of the DNA databank law.
December 30, 2010
Added arrestee collection (DNA on probable cause for arrest for listed felonies), effective July 1, 2011.
September 29, 2004
Conformed the qualifying-offense list (Art. 8) to the 2004 Penal Code and amended misuse penalties (Art. 14).
July 24, 1998
Created the Puerto Rico DNA databank (34 L.P.R.A. §§ 4001-4012), administered by the Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, with mandatory collection…