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MD: An Act Establishing Maryland’s Statewide DNA Database Program (1994 Md. Laws, Ch. 458)

May 26, 1994

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Original enactment of Maryland's statewide DNA database program, then codified in Article 88B (Department of State Police). The bill number is not available through the Maryland General Assembly's digital records, which do not extend before 1996. The program was later recodified into the Public Safety Article as § 2-504 by SB 1 (Ch. 5, 2003).

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