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 19, 1993
Established NC’s original State DNA Database and Databank under SBI administration (Article 13, G.S. 15A-266 et seq.); mandated DNA collection…
May 20, 1993
Omnibus crime prevention bill; tightened the DNA collection trigger to require collection when a person is charged with a qualifying…
June 1, 1991
Child protection and sex offender bill (also created Minnesota’s sex offender address registration, § 243.166); extended DNA collection to patterned…
May 28, 1991
Restructured § 609.3461 into subdivisions and added a ‘Before Release’ backstop requiring corrections authorities to collect DNA before a qualifying…
May 23, 1991
Created the OSBI DNA laboratory (74 O.S. § 150.27). Laws 1991, c. 227, § 3 (emergency, effective May 23, 1991).
March 27, 1990
First major expansion; amended RCW 43.43.754 and 43.43.758 to strengthen mandatory collection. Emergency clause — effective immediately upon signing.
July 5, 1989
Created § 943.325; required persons convicted of sexual battery (ch. 794) or lewdness/indecent exposure (ch. 800) to submit blood specimens…
May 26, 1989
Created both pillars of Minnesota’s DNA program: § 609.3461 (later § 609.117), requiring DNA specimens from offenders convicted of criminal…
May 12, 1989
Created Washington’s DNA identification system (chapter 43.43 RCW); established WSP authority to collect biological samples and build a DNA database.
January 1, 1970
Omnibus technical-corrections bill ratifying various corrections to prior Nevada session laws; Sec. 52 amends NRS 176.0913 (biological specimen/genetic marker collection…
January 1, 1970
Expanded the crimes for which a convicted person must submit a biological specimen for genetic marker analysis to all felonies;…