Federal · Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement

34 U.S.C. § 40727: Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program

Civil

What this law says, in plain English

The Attorney General establishes a grant program to fund post-conviction DNA testing costs for states, with $10,000,000 authorized annually from 2017–2021.

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The Attorney General shall establish the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program to award grants to States to help defray the costs of post-conviction DNA testing. There are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021 to carry out this section. For purposes of this section, the term “State” means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

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