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[H.R. 4854 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.4854

                     One Hundred Fifteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
           the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen


                                 An Act


 
  To amend the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to provide 
   additional resources to State and local prosecutors, 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 ``Justice Served Act of 2018''.
SEC. 2. PROSECUTION OF DNA COLD CASES.
    (a) Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program.--Section 2 of the DNA 
Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (34 U.S.C. 40701) is amended--
        (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following:
        ``(9) To increase the capacity of State and local prosecution 
    offices to address the backlog of violent crime cases in which 
    suspects have been identified through DNA evidence.''; and
        (2) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following:
        ``(5) Allocation of grant awards for prosecutors.--For each 
    fiscal year, not less than 5 percent, but not more than 7 percent, 
    of the grant amounts distributed under paragraph (1) shall, if 
    sufficient applications to justify such amounts are received by the 
    Attorney General, be awarded for purposes described in subsection 
    (a)(9), provided that none of the funds required to be distributed 
    under this paragraph shall decrease or otherwise limit the 
    availability of funds required to be awarded to States or units of 
    local government under paragraph (3).''.
    (b) Prosecution of Cold Cases.--Of the amounts made available to 
the Attorney General for a DNA Analysis and capacity enhancement 
program and for other local, State, and Federal forensic activities for 
the purpose described in section 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog 
Elimination Act of 2000 (34 U.S.C. 40701) under the heading ``state and 
local law enforcement assistance'' under the heading ``Office of 
Justice Programs'' under the heading ``DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE'' in 
fiscal years 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, not less than 5 percent, but 
not more than 7 percent, of such amounts shall be provided for grants 
for prosecutors to increase the capacity of State and local prosecution 
offices to address cold cases involving violent crime, where suspects 
have been identified through DNA evidence.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.