A09869
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
916
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, BARTOLOTTA, RESCHENTHALER, YUDICHAK,
FARNESE, HAYWOOD, VOGEL, BREWSTER, SCARNATI, WHITE, BROWNE,
FONTANA, WARD, BOSCOLA AND LEACH, MARCH 15, 2018
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MARCH 15, 2018
AN ACT
Amending Title Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and
44 (Law and Justice) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in post-trial matters, further providing for
postconviction DNA testing.; in DNA data and testing, further
providing for policy, for definitions, for powers and duties
of State Police, for State DNA Data Base, for State DNA Data
Bank, for State Police recommendation of additional offenses,
for procedural compatibility with FBI and for DNA sample
required upon conviction, delinquency adjudication and
certain ARD cases, providing for collection from persons
accepted from other jurisdictions and further providing for
procedures for withdrawal, collection and transmission of DNA
samples, for procedures for conduct, disposition and use of
DNA analysis, for DNA data base exchange and for expungement.
The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:
(1) Postconviction DNA testing has exonerated wrongfully
convicted individuals and identified real perpetrators of
crimes.
(2) To the extent possible, DNA testing of evidence
before trial is encouraged to help prevent wrongful
convictions and to lead to earlier detection and conviction
of actual perpetrators.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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