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 25, 2007
Amends A.R.S. § 13-610 (DNA testing) to add expungement procedures for arrestees whose DNA profile was collected but whose charge…
May 31, 2007
Repealed and reenacted § 16-11-102.4; extended collection to offenders in DOC custody before July 1, 2007, county jails, community corrections,…
May 31, 2007
Expanded the crimes for which a convicted person must submit a biological specimen for genetic marker analysis to all felonies;…
May 9, 2007
Added collection from arrestees of violent felonies (effective January 1, 2008) upon probable cause determination; required destruction of the sample…
April 22, 2007
Extended collection to all felony convictions (eliminating the prior limitation to specific felony chapters), with retroactivity reaching back to July…
April 18, 2007
Consolidated the statute by repealing the parallel 21-2511a section and folding its provisions back into 21-2511; updated CODIS compatibility language…
April 18, 2007
Amended T.C.A. § 40-35-321(d) to extend biological-specimen collection beyond felonies to persons convicted of any misdemeanor whose conviction requires sex-offender…
March 22, 2007
Moved North Dakota to pre-conviction (arrest-based) DNA collection; amended § 31-13-03 to require collection from any person arrested or booked…
March 5, 2007
Division of Scientific Services regulations for the state forensic science laboratory, covering definitions, DNA record searches and release of information,…
January 1, 2007
Established pre-conviction arrestee DNA collection in New Mexico. Enacted a new section of Chapter 29, Article 3 requiring any person…
November 1, 2006
Amended 74 O.S. § 150.27 to authorize OSBI to contract for the services of a Forensic DNA Technical Manager as…
August 28, 2006
Amended Penal Code §§ 296.1, 297, and 298.1 to exclude the retroactive collection requirement, change the laboratory-accreditation standard required of…