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<meta><dc:title>118 HR 1105 ENR: To amend the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to reauthorize the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>1105</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="118">One Hundred Eighteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">A T T  H  E S  E  C  O  N  D S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To amend the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to reauthorize the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d76e62" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/1105/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Debbie Smith Act of 2023</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d76e72" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/1105/s2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>REAUTHORIZATION.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Section 2(j) of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (<ref href="/us/usc/t34/s40701/j">34 U.S.C. 40701(j)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>fiscal years 2019 through 2024</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>fiscal years 2024 through 2029</quotedText>”.</content></section>
<section id="d76e91" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/1105/s3" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="fontsize12" value="3">SEC. 3. </num><heading>AUDITS TO PROTECT INTEGRITY OF GRANT AWARDS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Section 2(c)(4) of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (<ref href="/us/usc/t34/s40701/c/4">34 U.S.C. 40701(c)(4)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2022</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2029</quotedText>”.</content></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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