[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4480 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4480

  To make local governments eligible to apply for and receive grants 
 under the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 17, 2002

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To make local governments eligible to apply for and receive grants 
 under the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``The DNA Local Government Access 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO APPLY FOR AND RECEIVE DNA 
              BACKLOG ELIMINATION GRANTS.

    The DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by inserting after ``eligible States'' the 
                following: ``(or eligible units of local government, as 
                applicable)''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``(or unit)'' after ``the State'' 
                each place such term appears;
            (2) in subsection (b), by inserting ``(or unit)'' after 
        ``State''--
                    (A) in each place such term appears, except in the 
                case of paragraph (3); and
                    (B) in the first place such term appears, in the 
                case of paragraph (3);
            (3) in subsections (c), (d), (e), (f), and (h), by 
        inserting ``(or unit)'' after ``State'' each place such term 
        appears; and
            (4) in subsection (d)(2)(A), by inserting ``(and units)'' 
        after ``States''.
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