I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1523 
To amend the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to provide 
for Debbie Smith grants for auditing sexual assault evidence backlogs 
and to establish a Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Registry, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 13, 2011 
Mrs. MALONEY (for herself, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. MORAN, Mr. COSTA, Mr. 
GRIJALVA, Ms. RICHARDSON, Ms. MOORE, Mr. BARTLETT, Mr. DEUTCH, 
Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. ROONEY, Ms. WASSERMAN
SCHULTZ, Mr. 
FITZPATRICK, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. LATHAM, and Mrs. EMERSON) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 
2000 to provide for Debbie Smith grants for auditing 
sexual assault evidence backlogs and to establish a Sex-
ual Assault Forensic Evidence Registry, 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 ‘‘Sexual Assault Foren-
sic Evidence Registry Act of 2011’’ or the ‘‘SAFER Act 
of 2011’’. 
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SEC. 2. DEBBIE SMITH GRANTS FOR AUDITING SEXUAL AS-
SAULT EVIDENCE BACKLOGS. 
Section 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 conduct an audit consistent with sub-
section (n) of the samples of sexual assault evidence 
that are in the possession of the State or unit of 
local government and are awaiting testing.’’; 
(2) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) ALLOCATION OF GRANT AWARDS FOR AU-
DITS.—For each of fiscal years 2012 through 2016, 
not less than 7 percent of the grant amounts distrib-
uted under paragraph (1) shall be awarded for pur-
poses described in subsection (a)(6).’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(n) USE OF FUNDS FOR AUDITING SEXUAL AS-
SAULT EVIDENCE BACKLOGS.— 
‘‘(1) ELIGIBILITY.—The Attorney General may 
award a grant under this section to a State or unit 
of local government for the purpose described in 
subsection (a)(6) only if the State or unit of local 
government— 
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‘‘(A) submits a plan for performing the 
audit of samples described in such subsection; 
and 
‘‘(B) includes in such plan a good-faith es-
timate of the number of such samples. 
‘‘(2) GRANT CONDITIONS.—A State or unit of 
local government receiving a grant for the purpose 
described in subsection (a)(6) shall— 
‘‘(A) not later than 1 year after receiving 
such grant— 
‘‘(i) complete the audit referred to in 
paragraph (1)(A) in accordance with the 
plan submitted under such paragraph; and 
‘‘(ii) for each sample of sexual assault 
evidence identified in such audit, subject to 
paragraph (4), enter into the Sexual As-
sault Forensic Evidence Registry estab-
lished under section 3 of the SAFER Act 
of 2011 the information listed in sub-
section (b)(1) of such section; 
‘‘(B) not later than 14 days after receiving 
possession of a sample of sexual assault evi-
dence that was not in the possession of the 
State or unit of local government at the time of 
such audit, subject to paragraph (4), enter into 
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