I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5981 
To reauthorize certain DNA-related grant programs under the Justice For 
All Act of 2004, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 6, 2008 
Mr. WEINER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To reauthorize certain DNA-related grant programs under 
the Justice For All Act of 2004, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘DNA Expansion and 
Improvement Act of 2008’’. 
SEC. 2. DNA TECHNOLOGY ENHANCEMENT GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall estab-
lish a grant program under which the Attorney General 
may make grants to States and units of local government 
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to purchase forensic DNA technology or to improve such 
technology. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $50,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to carry out subsection 
(a). 
SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF DEBBIE 
SMITH DNA BACKLOG GRANT PROGRAM; PRI-
ORITY TO APPLICATIONS FOR USE OF FUNDS 
BY CERTAIN CRIME LABORATORIES. 
(a) REAUTHORIZATION
AND IMPROVEMENT.—Sec-
tion 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 
2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(6) To pay the salaries of employees of DNA 
criminal laboratories.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (6), by striking at the 
end ‘‘and’’; 
(B) in paragraph (7), by striking the pe-
riod and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
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‘‘(8) provide assurances that the State or unit 
of local government has implemented, or will imple-
ment not later than 180 days after the date of such 
application, a process under which the State or unit, 
respectively, provides for the collection for purposes 
of inclusion in the Combined DNA Index System of 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation of DNA sam-
ples from all felons who are imprisoned in a prison 
of such State or unit, respectively (including all fel-
ons imprisoned in such prison or unit, respectively, 
as of the date of the enactment of the DNA Expan-
sion and Improvement Act of 2008).’’. 
(3) by amending subsection (j) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(j) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General 
for grants under subsection (a)— 
‘‘(1) $151,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; and 
‘‘(2) $200,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
2010 through 2014.’’. 
(b) PRIORITY ESTABLISHED.—Such section is fur-
ther amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(n) PRIORITY.—In making grants under subsection 
(a), the Attorney General shall give priority to applications 
submitted under subsection (b) that demonstrate funds 
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