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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

SB 398

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Relating to: expungement of deoxyribonucleic acid from crime laboratories if person not adjudicated guilty or delinquent. (FE)

Court — Procedure Genetics and genetic testing Justice, department of Juvenile court Juvenile court — Jurisdiction

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under this bill, if a court reaches final disposition for all charges or allegations

for which a person was required to provide a biological sample to the Department of

Justice (DOJ) for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) analysis and the person is not found

guilty or delinquent on any such charge or allegation, the court must inform DOJ.

Then DOJ must purge all DNA records and information, and destroy all biological

samples, pertaining to that person. Current law requires such a person to request

DOJ to purge all records and information and destroy all such samples and for DOJ

to verify that final disposition was reached on all charges and allegations without a

guilty or delinquent verdict before fulfilling the request.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Harris Dodd (D) , L. Taylor (D)

5 cosponsors

Berceau (D) , Goyke (D) , Knudson (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Skowronski (R)

Full history

  1. Nov 20, 2015 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators L. Taylor and Harris Dodd; cosponsored by Representatives Knudson, Berceau and Goyke

  2. Nov 20, 2015 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

  3. Dec 18, 2015 · Senate

    Representative Skowronski added as a cosponsor

  4. Dec 22, 2015 · Senate

    Representative Ohnstad added as a cosponsor

  5. Apr 13, 2016 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1