West Virginia Senate Bill 471

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 16 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-01-16 - To Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

This bill relates to DNA that is maintained for law-enforcement purposes in West Virginia. It updates the policy for maintaining DNA and definitions. The bill adds language to include qualified arrestees in the state DNA database, and requires testing of qualified arrestees on intake, as well as a DNA sample from individuals convicted of a felony on or after March 9, 1995. The bill specifies testing methods, authorizes emergency and legislative rules, specifies expungement for qualified arrestees in certain circumstances, and provides that failure to expunge or a reasonable delay in expungement will not invalidate an identification, warrant, probable cause to arrest or arrest based upon a database match.

Maintaining DNA data for law-enforcement purposes

Sen. Patricia Rucker [R]

Sen. Robert Plymale [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-16	Senate	To Judiciary
2024-01-16	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2024-01-16	Senate	To Judiciary
2024-01-16	Senate	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2B	11	Amended Code	Citation Text
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Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=471&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb471%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=471