This database includes federal, state, and local laws, proposed legislation, budget impact statements,
regulations, and more as jurisdictions implement forensic DNA policies and procedures.
June 24, 2014
Administrative restructuring: abolished the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, created the Division of Forensic Science within DSHS and a…
June 24, 2014
Amended § 12-1.5-4 to add ‘individuals arrested for any crime of violence’ as a database category, in addition to convicted…
May 13, 2014
Moved Utah to booking-based (pre-conviction) DNA collection for ALL felony arrests: amended §§ 53-10-403, 53-10-404, and 53-10-404.5 to permit collection…
May 12, 2014
Major structural revision after Maryland v. King (2013); shifted collection to arrest-based (any adult arrested/charged with any felony or qualifying…
April 8, 2014
Dedicated DNA/law-enforcement standards bill; refined the arrest-based DNA collection provisions added by Act 20, defined ‘violent crime’ for DNA purposes,…
March 26, 2014
Amended § 19-5506 of the Idaho DNA Database Act to add a subsection providing that, absent a warrant authorizing collection…
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…
December 1, 2013
Forensic-evidence housekeeping bill; extended the SBI’s deadline to act on expunction verification forms from 30 to 90 days (§ 15A-266.3A).…
July 26, 2013
State budget act; Section 17.6 transfers the North Carolina State Crime Laboratory and the State DNA Database and Databank from…
July 1, 2013
Expanded Idaho’s DNA collection from an enumerated list of roughly 61 qualifying offenses to all persons (including juveniles tried as…
July 1, 2013
Extended Iowa’s DNA collection mandate to persons convicted of aggravated misdemeanors, adding them to the felony-based DNA profiling requirement in…
June 30, 2013
2013–15 executive budget act; expanded the DNA program by adding collection at arrest for felony violent crimes (§ 165.84(7)) and…