[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2680 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2680

   To authorize the grant program for elimination of the nationwide 
backlog in analyses of DNA samples at the level necessary to completely 
    eliminate the backlog and obtain a DNA sample from every person 
                   convicted of a qualifying offense.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 2001

 Mr. Andrews introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize the grant program for elimination of the nationwide 
backlog in analyses of DNA samples at the level necessary to completely 
    eliminate the backlog and obtain a DNA sample from every person 
                   convicted of a qualifying offense.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``DNA Database Completion Act of 
2001''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF DNA BACKLOG GRANTS AT LEVEL NECESSARY TO 
              COMPLETELY ELIMINATE BACKLOG AND OBTAIN DNA SAMPLES FROM 
              ALL PERSONS CONVICTED OF QUALIFYING OFFENSES.

    Subsection (j) of section 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination 
Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-546; 114 Stat. 2726; 42 U.S.C. 14135) is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``(j) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Attorney General for grants under subsection (a) 
$100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2002 through 2006.''.
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