[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3104 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3104

 To require that all individuals convicted of a felony under State law 
                         provide a DNA sample.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 10, 2008

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require that all individuals convicted of a felony under State law 
                         provide a DNA sample.

    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 Felony Collection Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. DNA COLLECTION.

    (a) In General.--The Attorney General of the United States shall 
enter into an agreement with each State under which the State shall--
            (1) collect a DNA sample from each individual convicted of 
        a felony under the laws of the State; and
            (2) 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.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) 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
            (2) 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.
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