Bill Text: CA AB1697 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: DNA and forensic identification database and databank.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-19 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 454, Statutes of 2014. [AB1697 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1697-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1697	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  454
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 13, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 28, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 10, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 20, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Donnelly

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2014

   An act to add Section 295.2 to the Penal Code, relating to
forensic identification.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1697, Donnelly. DNA and forensic identification database and
databank.
   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 (DNA) and forensic identification profiles
and records related to several functions, including, but not limited
to, using anonymous DNA records for training, research, statistical
analysis of populations, quality assurance, or quality control.
Proposition 69 amended these provisions to include buccal swabs as
samples and using anonymous DNA records for quality assurance.
   This bill would prohibit the DNA and forensic identification
database and databank and the DOJ DNA Laboratory from being used as a
source of genetic material for testing, research, or experiments, by
any person, agency, or entity seeking to find a causal link between
genetics and behavior or health.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 295.2 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   295.2.  The DNA and forensic identification database and data bank
and the Department of Justice DNA Laboratory shall not be used as a
source of genetic material for testing, research, or experiments, by
any person, agency, or entity seeking to find a causal link between
genetics and behavior or health.