This database includes federal, state, and local laws, proposed legislation, budget impact statements,
regulations, and more as jurisdictions implement forensic DNA policies and procedures.
December 14, 2011
Overhauled the sex-offender registry law and added further qualifying convictions to Art. 8 of the DNA databank law.
August 18, 2011
Added pre-conviction, arrestee-based DNA collection in New Jersey. Amended N.J.S.A. 53:1-20.20 to require every person (and juvenile) arrested for the…
July 29, 2011
Reenacted the SORNA framework and first added 6 CMC § 1365(a)(4), the CNMI’s sole forensic DNA-collection provision.
July 13, 2011
Added § 54-102g(a) authorizing DNA sample collection at arrest (not just conviction) for a person arrested for a serious felony…
June 30, 2011
Superseded Chapter 15’s amendments to Penal Code §§ 298.2 and 299.5 with the final 2011 realignment language governing penalties for…
June 10, 2011
Amended W. Va. Code § 15-2B-6 along with other sections of Article 2B and added §§ 15-2B-15 and 15-2B-16 as…
June 2, 2011
Repealed Sections 13A-11-200, 13A-11-201, and 13A-11-202 and Sections 15-20-1 through 15-20-38, Code of Alabama 1975, and replaced them with the…
May 11, 2011
Created current § 35-3-160 et seq. (Article 6A); closed HB 314’s gap by requiring DNA from all convicted felons (incarcerated,…
April 29, 2011
Amends §§8-238 and 13-610 relating to juvenile court DNA collection, revising the procedures for ordering juveniles to submit DNA samples…
April 19, 2011
Created § 31-13-10 (offense of tampering with a DNA sample) and amended §§ 31-13-03, 31-13-04, and 31-13-07 relating to collection…
April 4, 2011
Made conforming amendments to Penal Code §§ 298.2 (penalties for facilitating a wrongfully attributed sample or tampering with a DNA…
March 24, 2011
Amended Juli’s Law (A.C.A. § 12-12-1006(a)(2)) to add rape (§ 5-14-103) to the offenses for which a DNA sample must…