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Florida Senate - 2025 CS for SB 1072 By the Committee on Fiscal Policy; and Senator McClain 594-03708-25 20251072c1 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to an expedited DNA testing grant 3 program; creating s. 943.328, F.S.; defining the term 4 private lab; creating the Expedited DNA Testing 5 Grant Program within the Department of Law 6 Enforcement; specifying potential grant recipients; 7 providing purposes for the grants under the program; 8 specifying eligible uses for such grant funds; 9 requiring each grant recipient to provide a report to 10 the executive director of the department within a 11 certain timeframe; specifying the required contents of 12 the report; requiring the department to adopt rules; 13 providing an effective date. 14 15 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 16 17 Section 1.Section 943.328, Florida Statutes, is created to 18 read: 19 943.328Expedited DNA Testing Grant Program. 20 (1)As used in this section, the term private lab means a 21 DNA laboratory accredited pursuant to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 of the 22 International Organization for Standardization and Federal 23 Bureau of Investigation quality assurance standards or any 24 laboratory deemed appropriate by the department. 25 (2)There is created within the department the Expedited 26 DNA Testing Grant Program to award grants to law enforcement 27 agencies in the processing and testing of DNA samples. 28 (3)The department shall annually award to law enforcement 29 agencies any funds specifically appropriated for the grant 30 program to cover processing and testing of DNA samples by 31 private laboratories. 32 (4)Grants may be used by a law enforcement agency: 33 (a)When the technology or technique needed to process and 34 test the evidence or DNA sample properly is not readily 35 available at a local or state laboratory; or 36 (b)When, in the agencys judgment, justice is best served 37 through expedited processing and testing of the evidence or 38 sample. 39 (5)Each grant recipient shall provide to the executive 40 director a report no later than 1 year after receipt of funding 41 under the grant program. The report must include all of the 42 following information: 43 (a)The amount of annual funding received. 44 (b)The number of cases tested. 45 (c)The type of DNA testing used, including the name of the 46 laboratory to which such testing was outsourced, and the type of 47 equipment used for the testing. 48 (d)The result of the testing. 49 (e)The average amount of time it took to make each such 50 identification. 51 (6)The department shall adopt rules to implement and 52 administer this section and to establish the process for the 53 allocation of grant funds. 54 Section 2.This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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