[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2110 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2110

 To give priority funding for DNA Backlog Elimination and Self Defense 
 training, prioritizing for States and municipalities that are in the 
                  midst of combating a serial killer.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 14, 2003

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To give priority funding for DNA Backlog Elimination and Self Defense 
 training, prioritizing for States and municipalities that are in the 
                  midst of combating a serial killer.

    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 ``Emergency DNA Backlog Elimination 
and Self Defense from Serial Killers Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The United States produces more serial killers than any 
        other country. Up to 85 percent of the world's serial killers 
        are in the United States.
            (2) According to a study of the Behavioral Unit of the 
        Federal Bureau of Investigation, serial killing has climbed to 
        an almost ``epidemic proportion''.
            (3) At any given time there are an estimated 20-50 active 
        serial killers. Serial killers who change their targets or 
        methods are often never identified.
            (4) Approximately 500,000 DNA evidence kits across the 
        country wait to be processed because of a lack of funding. Over 
        3,000 DNA kits have not been processed in the Baton Rouge, 
        Louisiana, serial killer case.

SEC. 3. INCREASED GRANTS FOR ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING OF DNA EVIDENCE 
              KIT BACKLOG AND OF DNA SAMPLES FROM CONVICTED OFFENDERS 
              AND CRIME SCENES.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 2 of the DNA Analysis 
Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135) is amended--
            (1) by amending subsection (j)(1) to read as follows:
            ``(1) For grants for the purposes specified in paragraph 
        (1) of such subsection--
                    ``(A) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2004;
                    ``(B) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2005;
                    ``(C) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2006;
                    ``(D) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; and
                    ``(E) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2008.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(k) Availability of Funds.--Amounts made available for purposes 
specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (a) shall remain 
available until expended and priority shall be provided to those 
municipalities documented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to 
possess a serial killer.''.
    (b) Additional Grants for States With Serial Killers.--There are 
authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General $5,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2004 through 2008, to be available for grants to 
States that are documented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to 
possess a serial killer, to be used by the State only for eliminating 
the backlog in carrying out DNA analyses of samples specified in 
paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (a) of the DNA Analysis 
Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135(a)).

SEC. 4. INCLUSION OF DNA SAMPLES FROM ALL PERSONS CONVICTED OF VIOLENT 
              FELONIES.

    Section 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42 
U.S.C. 14135), as amended by section 3, is further amended in 
subsection (b)(3) by inserting before the semicolon at the end the 
following: ``, which shall include each offense under State law for 
which a sentence of death or imprisonment at hard labor may be 
imposed''.

SEC. 5. SELF DEFENSE CLASSES.

    (a) Authorization of Grants.--The Attorney General may make grants 
to States documented to possess a serial killer, to be used by the 
State to promote and develop self-defense classes.
    (b) Firearms Training.--Not less than 15 percent of the amount of a 
grant under subsection (a) shall be used only for firearms training.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary.

SEC. 6. CREATION OF SERIAL KILLER PROGRAM WITHIN THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF 
              INVESTIGATION GENERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION.

    Immediately upon implementation of this Act, the Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation shall establish a Serial Killer Program 
within the General Criminal Investigative Division of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation.
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