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PA HB1665
Bill
Status
6/25/2025
Primary Sponsor
Joseph Hogan
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AI Summary
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Expands mandatory DNA sample collection to include individuals arrested for criminal homicide, felony sex offenses, and other specified offenses, requiring collection at the time of fingerprinting with submission to State Police within 48 hours
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Authorizes "modified DNA searches" (familial DNA searching) allowing State Police to search the State DNA Data Base to identify potential close relatives of unknown suspects in unsolved cases when traditional investigative leads have been exhausted
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Broadens the definition of "other specified offense" requiring DNA collection to include all felonies, first-degree misdemeanors, and specific second-degree misdemeanors such as simple assault, false imprisonment, theft offenses, and animal cruelty
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Establishes expungement procedures for arrestees whose charges are dismissed, result in acquittal, are declined for prosecution, or fall outside the statute of limitations
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Takes effect 60 days after enactment and maintains the existing $250 mandatory cost assessed on persons convicted, adjudicated delinquent, or granted ARD for covered offenses
Legislative Description
In DNA data and testing, further providing for policy, for definitions, for State DNA Data Base, for State Police recommendation of additional offenses and annual report and for DNA sample required upon conviction, delinquency adjudication and certain ARD cases, providing for request for modified DNA search and further providing for DNA data base exchange, for expungement and for mandatory cost; and making an editorial change.
Last Action
Referred to Judiciary
6/25/2025