Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Crimes And Punishments, Criminal Procedure, Fees, Jails And Jailers, Local Mandate, Peace Officers And Law Enforcement, Police, City And County, Police, State, Sheriffs
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-01-15 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Amend KRS 17.169 to include local law enforcement as persons authorized to collect DNA samples; define "rapid DNA instruments"; amend KRS 17.170 to provide for the collection of DNA samples at arrest or initial appearance from all persons charged with a felony offense; allow for collection of a second DNA sample by approved local governments to be processed via rapid DNA instruments; amend KRS 17.175 to provide that a person may request expungement of the record of his or her DNA in certain enumerated circumstances; amend KRS 64.060 to establish a $5 payment from the State Treasury to the collecting agency for each DNA sample collected.
Sponsors
- P. Flannery (primary), primary
- G. Brown Jr. (primary), primary
- A. Neighbors (primary), primary