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HB 71 Original 2019 Regular Session Mack
Abstract: Changes the accreditation entity for the crime laboratories performing post-conviction
DNA testing.
Present law, for purposes of post-conviction DNA testing, provides that crime laboratories shall be
accredited by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board
(ASCLD/LAB) in forensic DNA analysis.
Proposed law changes the accreditation entity for the crime laboratories to those accredited by an
accreditation program based on the international standard ISO/IEC 17025, with an accreditation
scope in the field of forensic science testing in the discipline of biology and that is compliant with
the current version of Federal Bureau of Investigations Quality Assurance Standards for Forensic
DNA Testing Laboratories.
(Amends C.Cr.P. Art. 926.1(F) and (H)(5))