SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1000
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BARTLE.
Pre-filed January 6, 2004, and ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
3639S.02I
AN ACT
To repeal sections 650.050, 650.052, 650.055, and 650.100, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof four new sections relating to a DNA profiling system, with penalty provisions.
Section A. Sections 650.050, 650.052, 650.055, and 650.100, RSMo, are repealed and four new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 650.050, 650.052, 650.055, and 650.100, to read as follows:
650.050. 1. In any criminal trial or proceeding, the results of forensic DNA analysis shall be admissible as evidence to prove or disprove any relevant fact. The Missouri department of public safety shall develop and establish a "DNA Profiling System", referred to in sections 650.050 to 650.057 as the system to [support criminal justice services in the local communities throughout this state in DNA identification] assist federal, state, and local criminal justice and law enforcement agencies in the identification, investigation, and prosecution of individuals as well as the identification of missing and unidentified persons. This [establishment] DNA profiling system shall be accomplished through consultation with the Kansas City, Missouri [regional] police crime laboratory, Missouri state highway patrol crime laboratory, St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan crime laboratory, St. Louis county crime laboratory, southeast Missouri regional crime laboratory, Springfield regional crime laboratory, and the Missouri Southern State College police academy regional crime lab.
2. The DNA profiling system as established in this section shall be compatible with that used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to ensure that DNA records are fully exchangeable between DNA laboratories and that quality assurance standards issued by the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations are applied and performed.
650.052. 1. The state's DNA profiling system shall:
(1) Assist federal, state and local criminal justice and law enforcement agencies in the [putative] identification, detection or exclusion of individuals who are subjects of the investigation or prosecution of [violent or sex-related crime] criminal offenses in which biological evidence is recovered [from the crime scene]; and
(2) If personally identifiable information is removed, support development of forensic validation studies, forensic protocols, and the establishment and maintenance of a population statistics database, [when personal identifying information is removed] for federal, state, or local crime laboratories of law enforcement agencies; and
(3) [Support identification research and protocol development of forensic DNA analysis methods; and
(4) For quality control purposes; or
(5)] Assist in the recovery or identification of human remains from mass disasters, or for other humanitarian purposes, including identification of living missing persons.
2. The Missouri state highway patrol shall act as the central repository for the DNA profiling system and shall [coordinate with the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the national database program] collaborate with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other criminal justice agencies relating to the state's participation in CODIS and the National DNA Identification Index or in any DNA database.
3. The Missouri state highway patrol crime laboratory may promulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of sections 650.050 to 650.100 in accordance with Federal Bureau of Investigation recommendations for the form and manner of collection of blood or other scientifically accepted biological samples and other procedures for the operation of sections 650.050 to 650.057. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated pursuant to the authority of this section shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024, RSMo.
4. The Missouri state highway patrol shall provide the necessary components for collection of the convicted offender's biological samples. The DNA sample collection shall be performed by the department of corrections and the division of probation and parole, or their authorized designee or contracted third party. The specimens shall thereafter be forwarded to the Missouri state highway patrol crime laboratory.
5. The state's participating forensic DNA laboratories shall meet quality assurance standards specified by the Missouri state highway patrol crime laboratory and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to ensure quality DNA identification records submitted to the central repository.
6. The state's participating forensic DNA laboratories may provide the system for identification purposes to criminal justice, law enforcement officials and prosecutors in the preparation and utilization of DNA evidence for presentation in court and provide expert testimony in court on DNA evidentiary issues.
650.055. 1. Every individual who pleads guilty or nolo contendere to or is convicted in a Missouri circuit court, of a felony[, defined as a violent offense under chapter 565, RSMo,] or [as a sex] any offense under chapter 566, RSMo, [excluding sections 566.010 and 566.020, RSMo,] shall have a blood or scientifically accepted biological sample collected for purposes of DNA profiling analysis:
(1) Upon entering the department of [correction's] corrections reception and diagnostic centers; or
(2) Before release from a county jail or detention facility, state correctional facility, mental health facility, or any other detention facility or institution; or
(3) When the state accepts a person from another state under any interstate compact, or under any other reciprocal agreement with any county, state, or federal agency, or any other provision of law, whether or not the person is confined or released, the acceptance is conditional on the person providing a DNA sample if the person was convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or pleaded nolo contendere to an offense in any other jurisdiction which would be considered a qualifying offense as defined in this section if committed in this state, or if the person was convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or pleaded nolo contendere to any equivalent offense in any other jurisdiction;
(4) If such individual is under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections [on or after August 28, 1996]. Such jurisdiction includes persons currently incarcerated, persons on probation, as defined in section 217.650, RSMo, and on parole, as also defined in section 217.650, RSMo. Such individual shall not be released in any manner prior to the expiration of the person's maximum term of incarceration or supervised release unless and until that person has provided a DNA sample.
2. The Missouri state highway patrol and department of corrections shall be responsible for ensuring adherence to the law. Any person required to provide a DNA sample pursuant to this section shall be required to provide such sample, without the right of refusal, at a collection site designated by the Missouri state highway patrol and the department of corrections. Authorized personnel collecting or assisting in the collection of samples shall not be liable in any civil or criminal action when the act is performed in a reasonable manner. Such force may be used as necessary to the effectual carrying out and application of such processes and operations. The enforcement of these provisions by the authorities in charge of state correctional institutions and others having custody [of] or jurisdiction over those who have been convicted of [the], pleaded guilty to, or pleaded nolo contendere to felony offenses which shall not be set aside or reversed, is hereby made mandatory. In the event that a person's DNA sample is not adequate for any reason, the person shall provide another sample for analysis.
3. The procedure and rules for the collection, analysis, storage, expungement, use of DNA database records and privacy concerns shall not conflict with procedures and rules applicable to the Missouri DNA profiling system and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's DNA data bank system.
4. Database information or evidence of a DNA match shall neither be excluded from evidence in the trial of any case, nor shall any identification, detention, arrest, or warrant be invalidated, suppressed, excluded or conviction or plea of a person, based in whole or in part upon databasing information, or a database match, be reversed or set aside if it is determined that an offender's DNA sample was obtained or placed in the database by mistake.
5. Unauthorized uses or dissemination of individually identifiable DNA information in a database for purposes other than criminal justice or law enforcement is a class A misdemeanor.
6. A mandatory fee of one hundred sixty dollars, which shall be in addition to any other cost imposed pursuant to statutory authority, shall be assessed, without further requirements, on any person who pleads guilty to, pleads nolo contendere to, or is convicted of a qualifying offense under this section. All fees authorized pursuant to this section shall be collected by the Missouri department of corrections. All such fees collected pursuant to this section shall be transmitted to the Missouri department of public safety, which shall establish and administer a DNA database fund. The DNA database fund shall be used to provide for the ongoing operations and support of Missouri's state and local CODIS systems. Such fund shall be in addition to any other state or federal appropriations which provide for the ongoing operations and support of Missouri's state and local CODIS systems.
7. If an inmate under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections has not paid the fee required under this section, the department shall assess and collect the amount owed from that inmate's wages or prison account.
[5.] 8. Implementation of section 650.050 and this section shall be subject to future appropriations to keep Missouri's DNA system compatible with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's DNA data bank system.
9. All DNA records and biological materials retained in the DNA profiling system are considered closed records pursuant to chapter 610, RSMo. All records containing any information held or maintained by any person or by any agency, department, or political subdivision of the state concerning an individual's DNA profile shall be strictly confidential and shall not be disclosed, except to:
(1) Peace officers, as defined in section 590.010, RSMo;
(2) The attorney general or any assistant attorneys general acting on his or her behalf, as defined in chapter 27, RSMo;
(3) Prosecuting attorneys or circuit attorneys as defined in chapter 56, RSMo;
(4) Public employees of any agency, department or political subdivision who need to obtain such records to perform their public duties.
10. Any person who obtains records pursuant to the provisions of this section shall use such records only for investigative and prosecutorial purposes, including, but not limited to use at any criminal trial, hearing, or proceeding; or for law enforcement identification purposes, including identification of human remains. Such records shall be considered strictly confidential and shall only be released as authorized by this section.
11. An individual may request expungement of his or her DNA sample and DNA profile through the court issuing the reversal or dismissal. A certified copy of the court order establishing that such conviction has been reversed or guilty plea or plea of nolo contendere has been set aside shall be sent to the Missouri state highway patrol crime laboratory. Upon receipt of the court order, the laboratory will determine that the requesting individual has no other qualifying offense as a result of any separate plea or conviction prior to expungement.
(1) A person whose DNA record or DNA profile has been included in the state DNA database in accordance with this act may request expungement on the grounds that the conviction has been reversed, or the guilty plea or plea of nolo contendere on which the authority for including that person's DNA record or DNA profile was based has been set aside.
(2) Upon receipt of a written request for expungement, a certified copy of the final court order reversing the conviction or setting aside the plea and any other information necessary to ascertain the validity of the request, the Missouri state highway patrol crime laboratory shall expunge all DNA records and identifiable information in the database pertaining to the person and destroy the DNA sample of the person, unless the Missouri state highway patrol determines that the person is otherwise obligated to submit a DNA sample.
(3) The Missouri state highway patrol is not required to destroy any item of physical evidence obtained from a DNA sample if evidence relating to another person would thereby be destroyed;
(4) Any identification, warrant, arrest, or evidentiary use of a DNA match derived from the database shall not be excluded or suppressed from evidence, nor shall any conviction be invalidated or reversed or plea set aside due to the failure to expunge or a delay in expunging DNA records.
650.100. The following words shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
(1) "CODIS", the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Combined DNA Index System that allows the storage and exchange of DNA records submitted by federal, state, and local DNA crime laboratories. The term "CODIS" includes the National DNA Identification Index administered and operated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
(2) "Crime laboratories" [means], those crime laboratories existing on September 28, 1979, in certain cities in this state and which have at least once prior to September 28, 1979, received funding through the Missouri council on criminal justice, and such other crime laboratories that may be created to serve specified regions of the state as determined by the director of the department of public safety;
[(2)] (3) "Department" [means], the Missouri department of public safety;
(4) "DNA", deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA is located in the cells and provides an individual's personal genetic blueprint. DNA encodes genetic information that is the basis of human heredity and forensic identification;
(5) "DNA profile", refers to the collective results of all DNA identification analyses on an individual's DNA sample;
(6) "DNA record", the DNA identification information stored in the state DNA database or CODIS. The DNA record is the result obtained from the DNA analysis. The DNA record is comprised of the characteristics of a DNA sample, which are of value in establishing the identity of individuals;
(7) "DNA sample", a biological sample provided by any person with respect to offenses covered by section 650.055 or submitted to the Missouri state highway patrol crime laboratory pursuant to sections 650.050 to 650.100 for analysis or storage or both;
[(3)] (8) "Local funds" [means], any funds not provided by the federal government.