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111th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 106
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 6, 2009
Mr. Vitter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To require that all individuals convicted of a felony under State law provide a DNA sample.
Short title
This Act may be cited as
the DNA Felony Collection Act of
2009
.
DNA collection
In general
The Attorney General of the United States shall enter into an agreement with each State under which the State shall—
collect a DNA sample from each individual convicted of a felony under the laws of the State; and
include the results of a DNA analysis of each DNA sample collected under paragraph (1) in an index of DNA analysis records maintained by the State or by the Federal Government.
Definitions
In this section—
the terms DNA analysis and DNA sample have the meanings given those term in section 3(c) of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135a(c)); and
the term State means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any possession of the United States.