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 23, 2001
Pennsylvania State Police statement of policy under the DNA Detection of Sexual and Violent Offenders Act (35 P.S. 7651.101-7651.1102). Ten…
June 15, 2001
The District’s founding forensic DNA statute, codified at D.C. Official Code § 22-4151. Its entire operative content is a 46-paragraph…
June 5, 2001
Changed ‘blood samples’ to the broader ‘biological specimen’ throughout NRS 176.0913; required genetic marker analysis from certain offenders convicted of…
May 22, 2001
Expanded Kansas DNA collection by amending K.S.A. 21-2511 to require specimens from any person convicted as an adult or adjudicated…
May 2, 2001
Sponsored by Rep. Paul Clark and titled ‘Expand DNA database to all felonies.’ Expanded the collection of DNA evidence from…
April 12, 2001
Expanded North Dakota’s convicted-offender DNA collection by amending N.D.C.C. § 31-13-03 to require, in addition to existing sexual-offense collection, a…
December 19, 2000
Created the federal offender DNA-collection statute (42 U.S.C. 14135a); required collection from qualifying convicted federal offenders and added Secretary of…
September 28, 2000
Amended Penal Code §§ 296, 296.1, 297, 298, 299, and 299.5 to expand convicted-offender DNA collection to persons adjudicated wards…
September 28, 2000
Added Title 12.5 (§ 14250 et seq.) to the Penal Code establishing DNA data bank provisions and repealed § 14251.…
September 13, 2000
Expanded DNA collection to murder, manslaughter, second-degree aggravated assault, kidnapping, luring/enticing a child, and endangering the welfare of children. Effective…
August 18, 2000
Amended § 23-3-620 to expand the list of offenders required to submit samples; required SLED to begin collecting no later…
July 1, 2000
Established Mississippi’s DNA identification system within the Sex Offenders Registration Law by creating § 45-33-37, directing the Mississippi Crime Laboratory…