This database includes federal, state, and local laws, proposed legislation, budget impact statements,
regulations, and more as jurisdictions implement forensic DNA policies and procedures.
July 15, 2010
Section 4 created G.S. 15A-266.3A, establishing arrest-based DNA collection for the first time in NC; required cheek-swab collection at arrest…
July 6, 2010
Established arrest-based (pre-conviction) DNA collection in Ohio — a threshold only about 30 states have adopted — by amending R.C.…
June 17, 2010
Added offenses to Louisiana’s DNA collection scheme by amending the definition of ‘other specified offense’ in R.S. 15:603(10), inserting several…
May 14, 2010
Relates to post-conviction DNA testing, the preservation of certain evidence, and the DNA identification registration system; amends post-conviction relief procedures…
May 10, 2010
Amended T.C.A. § 38-6-113(c) to require the TBI’s centralized DNA cross-reference system to include violent juvenile sexual offender profiles (persons…
April 22, 2010
Added subdivision 4 to Minn. Stat. § 609.117, creating a court process to obtain DNA from offenders who were required…
April 19, 2010
Primarily an EMS reform bill; § 15 updated specimen terminology from ‘blood and saliva specimens’ to ‘biological samples’ and added…
April 1, 2010
Office of Attorney General rules adopted under N.D.C.C. ch. 28-32 as required by N.D.C.C. ch. 31-13. Chapter 10-17-01, ‘DNA Analysis’,…
March 31, 2010
Enacted Utah Code § 53-10-404.5 and amended §§ 53-10-403 through -407 to require sheriffs, on and after January 1, 2011,…
March 10, 2010
Amended §§ 23-5A-17 and 23-5A-25. Signed March 10, 2010.
January 1, 2010
Amended Penal Code § 298.1 in the annual ‘Maintenance of the codes’ bill, retaining that a person who refuses, after…
August 28, 2009
Arrest-based collection; expanded collection to any person 17+ arrested for 1st/2nd degree burglary or a felony under chapters 565, 566,…