34 U.S.C. § 40722: DNA training and education for law enforcement, correctional personnel, and court officers

law enforcement personnel, including police officers and other first responders, evidence technicians, investigators, and others who collect or examine evidence of crime; court officers, including State and local prosecutors, defense lawyers, and judges; forensic science professionals; and corrections personnel, including prison and jail personnel, and probation, parole, and other officers involved in supervision. There are authorized to be appropriated $12,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2024 to carry out this section. meet the requirements under section 303, 305, 308, or 412, as appropriate; and provides DNA testing of specified evidence under a State statute or a State or local rule or regulation to persons sentenced to imprisonment or death for a State felony offense, in a manner intended to ensure a reasonable process for resolving claims of actual innocence that ensures post-conviction DNA testing in at least those cases that would be covered by section 3600(a) of title 18 , United States Code, had they been Federal cases and, if the results of the testing exclude the applicant as the source of the DNA, permits the applicant to apply for post-conviction relief, notwithstanding any provision of law that would otherwise bar the application as untimely; and preserves biological evidence, as defined in section 3600A of title 18 , United States Code, under a State statute or a State or local rule, regulation, or practice in a manner intended to ensure that reasonable measures are taken by the State or jurisdiction to preserve biological evidence secured in relation to the investigation or prosecution of, at a minimum, murder, nonnegligent manslaughter and sexual offenses.”