This database includes federal, state, and local laws, proposed legislation, budget impact statements,
regulations, and more as jurisdictions implement forensic DNA policies and procedures.
September 1, 2025
Relates to Rapid DNA analysis by certain law enforcement agencies; defines Rapid DNA and establishes a Rapid DNA analysis pilot…
September 1, 2025
Addresses the rights of victims of sexual assault and other sex offenses, together with the prosecution, punishment, and collateral consequences…
June 22, 2025
Article IX, Section 18.65 appropriates $2,855,277 in fiscal year 2026 and $2,280,783 in fiscal year 2027 from the General Revenue…
June 22, 2025
Rider 29 of the Trusteed Programs Within the Office of the Governor bill pattern governs grants for the testing of…
September 1, 2023
Replaced the 25-felony list with ‘arrested for any offense punishable as a felony,’ making DNA collection mandatory at booking for…
September 1, 2023
Amended § 420.043, Government Code, imposing duties on law enforcement agencies, crime laboratories, and the Department of Public Safety following…
September 1, 2019
Amended Texas Gov’t Code § 411.1471(a)(3)(A) to strike the DNA-collection exemptions for the Class A misdemeanor offenses of unlawful restraint…
September 1, 2019
Major rewrite of § 411.1471; shifted the collection trigger from indictment to arrest and expanded the qualifying list from 11…
September 1, 2015
Amended Gov’t Code § 411.1471 to expand the felonies that trigger DNA specimen collection at indictment from 9 to 11…
September 1, 2001
Created § 411.1471, requiring DNA collection at indictment for 9 enumerated violent/sexual felonies (first pre-conviction DNA law in the nation);…
September 1, 1995
Created the DNA Database Subchapter G (Gov’t Code §§ 411.141–411.154); established DPS as the central repository, mandated collection from convicted…