An Act amending Title 44 (Law and Justice) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in DNA data and testing, further providing for policy, for definitions, for powers and duties of State Police, for State DNA Data Base, for State DNA Data Bank, for State Police recommendation of additional offenses, for procedural compatibility with FBI and for DNA sample required upon conviction, delinquency adjudication and certain ARD cases, providing for collection from persons accepted from other jurisdictions and further providing for procedures for withdrawal, collection and transmission of DNA samples, for procedures for conduct, disposition and use of DNA analysis, for DNA data base exchange and for expungement.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2017
Committee Review
Jun 2018
Senate Passage
Jun 2017
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 28, 2017
Last action Oct 11, 2018
Floor votes · Senate Jun 29, 2017
How they voted
25–0
Passed
Total votes 25
Jun 29, 2017
D
Democratic10
100% Yea
R
Republican15
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
18
Key actions
5
Committee
8
Amendments
1
Jun 19, 2018
Lower · Passed
Re-reported as committed
lower
Jun 18, 2018
Committee
Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS
lower
Jun 12, 2018
Lower · Passed
Reported as committed
lower
Jun 30, 2017
Committee
Referred to JUDICIARY
lower
Jun 29, 2017
Upper · Passed
Third consideration and final passage
upper
Jun 27, 2017
Introduced
PN 1026 Amended on third consideration
upper
Jun 12, 2017
Upper · Passed
Re-reported as committed
upper
May 10, 2017
Committee
Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS
upper
Apr 25, 2017
Upper · Passed
Reported as committed
upper
Feb 28, 2017
Committee
PN 0454 Referred to JUDICIARY
upper
1 primary · 12 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Thomas H. Killion
RRepublican
Co
Art Haywood
DDemocratic
Co
Bob Mensch
RRepublican
Co
Jim Brewster
DDemocratic
Co
John C. Rafferty
RRepublican
Co
John P. Sabatina
DDemocratic
Co
Judy Schwank
DDemocratic
Co
Lisa Boscola
DDemocratic
Co
Mike Regan
RRepublican
Co
Patrick M. Browne
RRepublican
Co
Randy Vulakovich
RRepublican
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