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DNA and forensic identification database and databank.

It became law on Sep 19, 2014.

CA AB 1697 · Assembly Bill · 2013–2014

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Latest action
Sep 19, 2014

What it does

Existing law, as amended by the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, Proposition 69, approved by the voters at the November 2, 2004, general election, subjects certain offenders to the collection of buccal swab samples, right thumbprints, a full palm print impression of each hand, and blood specimens or other biological samples for law enforcement identification analysis. The DNA Laboratory of the Department of Justice (DOJ) is required to serve as a repository for blood specimens, buccal swabs, and other biological samples collected, and is required to analyze specimens and samples, and to store, compile, correlate, compare, maintain, and use deoxyribonucleic acid…

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Where it stands

This bill passed and is now law.

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    Sep 19, 2014

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