Bill Information

An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses), 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 44 (Law and Justice) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for tampering with biological evidence; further providing for expungement; providing for informant testimony, further providing for controlled substance forfeiture, for sovereign immunity and for exceptions to sovereign immunity; providing for wrongful conviction and imprisonment; further providing for preservation of biological evidence; repealing provisions relating to postconviction DNA testing; further providing for jurisdiction and proceedings; providing for postconviction DNA testing; and providing for comparisons with CODIS data, for recording of custodial interrogations, for eyewitness identifications, for forensic laboratories and for powers and duties of the board.