This database includes federal, state, and local laws, proposed legislation, budget impact statements,
regulations, and more as jurisdictions implement forensic DNA policies and procedures.
May 26, 2005
Companion bill to SB 213 (Ch. 448); amended Public Safety Article § 2-504 to authorize DNA sample collection at the…
May 18, 2005
Expanded Ohio DNA collection from an enumerated list of felonies to ALL felonies: amended R.C. 2901.07 so a specimen must…
May 10, 2005
Removed the funding contingency; deleted the condition that DNA collection was required only ‘if adequate funds are appropriated,’ making collection…
May 5, 2005
Relates to the collection of, and the use of reasonable force to collect, a DNA sample from persons convicted of…
April 28, 2005
Implements 18 U.S.C. 3600A. Requires the government to preserve biological evidence secured in a federal investigation or prosecution while the…
April 7, 2005
Omnibus code corrections bill; § 24 amended § 24-4-60 to extend DNA collection to inmates in private correctional facilities under…
April 7, 2005
Committee Substitute for HB 165 (a sex offender registration bill); added Subsection A(4) requiring sex offenders to provide a DNA…
March 28, 2005
Omnibus bill creating the standalone Department of Forensic Science (replacing the Division under DCJS); updated references in § 19.2-310.2:1 from…
December 2, 2004
Provided the West Virginia State Police the ability to define and draw DNA samples from convicted felons for the purpose…
November 30, 2004
Recodified the program into 44 Pa.C.S. Chapter 23 (including § 2316) as a continuation of the 1995 law; expanded covered…
November 2, 2004
Approved by voters as Proposition 69, this initiative made two fundamental expansions of California’s DNA databank: it extended convicted-offender collection…
November 1, 2004
Authorized county sheriffs to collect offender DNA samples: amended 22 O.S. § 991a so probationers submit within 30 days of…