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IN SB0003

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

1/7/2013

Primary Sponsor

Thomas Wyss

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Origin

Senate

2013 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires juvenile courts to order children adjudicated as delinquent for burglary, residential entry, crimes of violence, or sex offenses to provide DNA samples to the supervising agency or county sheriff.

  • Adds certain delinquent children to the Indiana DNA database alongside convicted criminals, crime scene specimens, and missing persons records.

  • Allows DNA samples from delinquent children to be tested, typed, and analyzed for identification and investigation purposes, similar to procedures for adult offenders.

  • Permits expungement of a delinquent child's DNA profile from the state and national databases if their adjudication is reversed and the case dismissed.

  • Makes tampering with DNA samples collected from delinquent children a Class D felony; effective July 1, 2013.

Legislative Description

Juvenile DNA testing.

Last Action

Senator Wyss added as second author

1/10/2013

Committee Referrals

Judiciary1/10/2013
Rules and Legislative Procedure1/7/2013

Full Bill Text

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