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 28, 2019
Most significant expansion since 2000; added a collection trigger for persons charged with a felony who receive a first-offender sentence…
October 24, 2018
Most significant direct amendment to § 2316; made DNA submission mandatory regardless of court advisement, extended the mandate to probation…
August 13, 2018
Requires a person who commits certain offenses under the state code of military justice to register as a sex offender…
August 1, 2018
Enacted R.S. 15:603(10)(r), (s), and (t), adding violations of R.S. 14:43.1.1, 14:95.8, and 14:95 to the list of ‘other specified…
June 22, 2018
‘People-first language’ omnibus bill; § 4(n) amended § 15A-266.3A’s offense list, adding offenses (lengthening subsection (f) versus the 2010 version).
April 13, 2018
Completely rewrote § 3, establishing the current two-subsection structure (submission forthwith upon conviction or within 10 days of intake; no…
March 12, 2018
Post-Conviction Determination of Factual Innocence Act; incorporates §§ 7-19-401 to 7-19-406 by requiring petitioners with biological evidence to seek DNA…
January 22, 2018
Would have amended Penal Code § 296 (enacted via Proposition 69) to expand mandatory DNA collection (buccal swabs, thumbprints, palm…
August 28, 2017
Broad omnibus criminal law bill that amended § 650.055 (DNA collection). Signed July 6, 2017; effective August 28, 2017 (certain…
August 18, 2017
Authorized FBI-approved Rapid DNA instruments and inclusion of their results in CODIS; amended the DNA Identification Act (34 U.S.C. 12591,…
August 1, 2017
Comprehensive overhaul of juvenile records/expungement law; amended R.S. 15:614(B) to tie DNA-record removal to the Children’s Code Title XXXIV /…
July 1, 2017
Required any person arrested for a felony after December 31, 2017 to submit a DNA sample by buccal swab; added…