Bill Text: TX HB2307 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a grant program to assist law enforcement agencies in collecting DNA samples from defendants arrested for a felony offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-31 - Filed [HB2307 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2307-Introduced.html
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| By: Plesa | H.B. No. 2307 | |
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| relating to the establishment of a grant program to assist law | ||
| enforcement agencies in collecting DNA samples from defendants | ||
| arrested for a felony offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 411.1472 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 411.1472. DNA SAMPLE COLLECTION GRANT PROGRAM. (a) | ||
| From money appropriated or otherwise available for the purpose, the | ||
| department shall establish and implement a grant program to assist | ||
| law enforcement agencies in taking a DNA sample when booking a | ||
| defendant arrested for a felony as required by Section 411.1471. | ||
| (b) The department shall adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
| this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas | ||
| shall establish the grant program required under Section 411.1472, | ||
| Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
