Bill Text: IN SB0299 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Juvenile DNA testing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-05 - First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary [SB0299 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2012-SB0299-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 10-13-6; IC 31-37-19-1.
Synopsis: Juvenile DNA testing. Requires a juvenile court to order a
child found to be delinquent for the commission of an act that, if
committed by an adult, would be: (1) burglary; (2) residential entry; (3)
a crime of violence; or (4) a sex offense; to provide a DNA sample to
the agency having supervision of the child or to the county sheriff.
Makes conforming amendments.
Effective: July 1, 2012.
January 5, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary.
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(1) convicted criminals;
(2) certain delinquent children;
(b) The superintendent shall maintain the Indiana DNA data base.
(c) The superintendent may contract for services to perform DNA analysis of convicted offenders under section 10 of this chapter or certain delinquent children under IC 31-37-19-1 to assist federal, state, and local criminal justice and law enforcement agencies in the putative identification, detection, or exclusion of individuals who are subjects of an investigation or prosecution of a sex offense, a violent crime, or another crime in which biological evidence is recovered from
the crime scene.
(d) The superintendent:
(1) may perform or contract for performance of testing, typing, or
analysis of a DNA sample collected from a person described in
section 10 of this chapter or certain delinquent children
described in IC 31-37-19-1 at any time; and
(2) shall perform or contract for the performance of testing,
typing, or analysis of a DNA sample collected from a person
described in section 10 of this chapter or certain delinquent
children described in IC 31-37-19-1 if federal funds become
available for the performance of DNA testing, typing, or analysis.
(e) The superintendent shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 necessary
to administer and enforce the provisions and intent of this chapter.
(f) The detention, arrest, or conviction of a person based on a data
base match or data base information is not invalidated if a court
determines that the DNA sample was obtained or placed in the Indiana
DNA data base by mistake.
(b) All identifiable information in the Indiana DNA data base pertaining to a person requesting expungement under subsection (a) shall be expunged, and all samples from the person shall be destroyed upon receipt of:
(1) a written request for expungement under subsection (a);
(2) a certified copy of the court order reversing and dismissing the conviction or adjudication; and
(3) any other information necessary to ascertain the validity of the request.
(c) Upon expungement of a person's DNA profile from the Indiana DNA data base, the superintendent shall request expungement of the person's DNA profile from the national DNA data base.
(1) Order supervision of the child by the probation department.
(2) Order the child to receive outpatient treatment:
(A) at a social service agency or a psychological, a psychiatric, a medical, or an educational facility; or
(B) from an individual practitioner.
(3) Remove the child from the child's home and place the child in another home or shelter care facility. Placement under this subdivision includes authorization to control and discipline the child.
(4) Award wardship to a:
(A) person, other than the department; or
(B) shelter care facility.
(5) Partially or completely emancipate the child under section 27 of this chapter.
(6) Order:
(A) the child; or
(B) the child's parent, guardian, or custodian;
to receive family services.
(7) Order a person who is a party to refrain from direct or indirect contact with the child.
(b) If the child is removed from the child's home and placed in a foster family home or another facility, the juvenile court shall:
(A) approve a permanency plan for the child;
(B) find whether or not reasonable efforts were made to prevent or eliminate the need for the removal;
(C) designate responsibility for the placement and care of the child with the probation department; and
(D) find whether it:
(i) serves the best interests of the child to be removed; and
(ii) would be contrary to the health and welfare of the child for the child to remain in the home.
(c) If a dispositional decree under this section:
(1) orders or approves removal of a child from the child's home or awards wardship of the child to a:
(A) person other than the department; or
(B) shelter care facility; and
(2) is the first court order in the delinquent child proceeding that
authorizes or approves removal of the child from the child's
parent, guardian, or custodian;
the court shall include in the decree the appropriate findings and
conclusions described in IC 31-37-6-6(f) and IC 31-37-6-6(g).
(d) If a child is adjudicated to be a delinquent child under
IC 31-37-2 for the commission of an act that, if committed by an
adult, would be:
(1) burglary (IC 35-43-2-1);
(2) residential entry (IC 35-43-2-1.5);
(3) a crime of violence (as defined in IC 35-50-1-2); or
(4) a sex offense (as defined in IC 11-8-8-5.2);
the juvenile court shall order the child to provide a DNA sample to
the agency having supervision of the child or to the county sheriff.
A child is not required to submit a blood sample under this
subsection if doing so would present a substantial and
unreasonable risk to the child's health.
(e) If a juvenile court orders the agency having supervision of a
child or the county sheriff to collect a DNA sample from the child
under subsection (d), the agency or sheriff shall comply with:
(1) IC 10-13-6-12; and
(2) the guidelines issued by the superintendent of the state
police department under IC 10-13-6-11.
