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 22, 1993
Created A.R.S. § 13-4438, the predecessor to § 13-610, requiring DNA collection from persons convicted of sexual offenses. This is…
July 14, 1992
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 17 (codified at KRS 17.170) requiring that any person convicted on or after…
April 17, 1992
Georgia’s original DNA database statute. Required blood samples for DNA analysis from persons convicted of enumerated sex offenses — rape,…
April 16, 1992
First amendment to K.S.A. 21-2511. Extended the collection mandate to persons adjudicated as juvenile offenders for the qualifying offenses; covered…
September 29, 1991
Created ORS 137.076, requiring blood samples from persons convicted of enumerated offenses — rape, sodomy, unlawful sexual penetration, sexual abuse,…
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 Oklahoma’s state DNA laboratory program: enacted 74 O.S. § 150.27 directing the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to establish,…
May 2, 1991
Kansas’s original DNA collection statute, enacting K.S.A. 21-2511. Required any person convicted of an unlawful sexual act as defined in…
March 27, 1990
First substantive expansion of Washington’s one-year-old DNA law: amended RCW 43.43.754 and 43.43.758 to close the collection gap for offenders…
July 5, 1989
Created Section 943.325, Florida Statutes, establishing Florida’s DNA database for sex offenders; required any person convicted on or after January…
May 26, 1989
Created both pillars of Minnesota’s DNA program: § 609.3461 (later § 609.117), requiring DNA specimens from offenders convicted of criminal…