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108TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2110

To give priority funding for DNA Backlog Elimination and Self Defense 

training, prioritizing for States and municipalities that are in the midst 

of combating a serial killer. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 14, 2003

Mr. VITTER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on the Judiciary 

A BILL

To give priority funding for DNA Backlog Elimination and 

Self Defense training, prioritizing for States and municipalities that are in the midst of combating a serial killer.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Emergency DNA 

5 Backlog Elimination and Self Defense from Serial Killers 

6 Act of 2003’’. 

7 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

8 The Congress finds the following: 
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1 (1) The United States produces more serial kill2 ers than any other country. Up to 85 percent of the 

3 world’s serial killers are in the United States. 

4 (2) According to a study of the Behavioral Unit 

5 of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serial killing 

6 has climbed to an almost ‘‘epidemic proportion’’. 

7 (3) At any given time there are an estimated 

8 20–50 active serial killers. Serial killers who change 

9 their targets or methods are often never identified. 

10 (4) Approximately 500,000 DNA evidence kits 

11 across the country wait to be processed because of 

12 a lack of funding. Over 3,000 DNA kits have not 

13 been processed in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, serial 

14 killer case. 

15 SEC. 3. INCREASED GRANTS FOR ANALYSIS AND PROC16 ESSING OF DNA EVIDENCE KIT BACKLOG 

17 AND OF DNA SAMPLES FROM CONVICTED OF18 FENDERS AND CRIME SCENES. 

19 (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 

20 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 

21 (42 U.S.C. 14135) is amended—

22 (1) by amending subsection (j)(1) to read as 

23 follows: 

24 ‘‘(1) For grants for the purposes specified in 

25 paragraph (1) of such subsection—
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1 ‘‘(A) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2004; 

2 ‘‘(B) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2005; 

3 ‘‘(C) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2006; 

4 ‘‘(D) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; 

5 and 

6 ‘‘(E) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2008.’’; 

7 and 

8 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub9 section: 

10 ‘‘(k) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Amounts made 

11 available for purposes specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) 

12 of subsection (a) shall remain available until expended and 

13 priority shall be provided to those municipalities docu14 mented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to possess 

15 a serial killer.’’. 

16 (b) ADDITIONAL GRANTS FOR STATES WITH SERIAL

17 KILLERS.—There are authorized to be appropriated to the 

18 Attorney General $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 

19 through 2008, to be available for grants to States that 

20 are documented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation 

21 to possess a serial killer, to be used by the State only for 

22 eliminating the backlog in carrying out DNA analyses of 

23 samples specified in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of sub24 section (a) of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act 

25 of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135(a)). 
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1 SEC. 4. INCLUSION OF DNA SAMPLES FROM ALL PERSONS 

2 CONVICTED OF VIOLENT FELONIES. 

3 Section 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination 

4 Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135), as amended by section 

5 3, is further amended in subsection (b)(3) by inserting be6 fore the semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘, which shall 

7 include each offense under State law for which a sentence 

8 of death or imprisonment at hard labor may be imposed’’. 

9 SEC. 5. SELF DEFENSE CLASSES. 

10 (a) AUTHORIZATION OF GRANTS.—The Attorney 

11 General may make grants to States documented to possess 

12 a serial killer, to be used by the State to promote and 

13 develop self-defense classes. 

14 (b) FIREARMS TRAINING.—Not less than 15 percent 

15 of the amount of a grant under subsection (a) shall be 

16 used only for firearms training. 

17 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

18 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 

19 such sums as may be necessary. 

20 SEC. 6. CREATION OF SERIAL KILLER PROGRAM WITHIN 

21 THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 

22 GENERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVI23 SION. 

24 Immediately upon implementation of this Act, the Di25 rector of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall estab26 lish a Serial Killer Program within the General Criminal 
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1 Investigative Division of the Federal Bureau of Investiga2 tion.

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