This database includes federal, state, and local laws, proposed legislation, budget impact statements,
regulations, and more as jurisdictions implement forensic DNA policies and procedures.
April 2, 2002
Kentucky’s comprehensive DNA act. Created KRS 422.285, allowing a person sentenced to death to move for DNA testing of evidence…
April 1, 2002
Expanded Washington’s DNA database from sex and violent offenders to every adult or juvenile convicted of any felony, plus stalking…
January 7, 2002
Comprehensive revision of the Commonwealth’s sexual assault and child sexual abuse offenses. Section 6 adds a new 6 CMC §…
October 26, 2001
Expanded the federal ‘qualifying Federal offense’ definition through § 503 of the USA PATRIOT Act, rewriting § 3(d)(2) of the…
September 21, 2001
Major expansion; broadened DNA collection to all Class A, B, and C crimes for persons convicted on or after October…
September 1, 2001
Created § 411.1471, requiring DNA collection at indictment for 9 enumerated violent/sexual felonies (first pre-conviction DNA law in the nation);…
August 31, 2001
Amended § 23-3-620 to add burglary in the second degree (§ 16-11-312(A)) to the enumerated offenses for which a person…
July 27, 2001
Amended ORS 137.076 to require a blood or buccal DNA sample from every person convicted of ANY felony, replacing the…
July 24, 2001
Sections 22 and 23 amend paragraph (37) of the qualifying-offense list in § 2 of the DNA Sample Collection Act…
July 1, 2001
Overhauled Mississippi’s sex offender registration law and, for DNA purposes, defined ‘registration duties’ to include obtaining each registrant’s biological sample…
June 30, 2001
Omnibus public safety/domestic abuse bill; amended § 609.117 subd. 2 (‘Before Release’) to extend collection to any person serving imprisonment…
June 29, 2001
Expanded Massachusetts DNA collection from an enumerated-offense scheme to an all-felony mandate by amending G.L. c. 22E § 3 so…