I 
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 munici-
palities that are in the midst of combating a serial killer.
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 ‘‘Emergency DNA 
Backlog Elimination and Self Defense from Serial Killers 
Act of 2003’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following:
(1) The United States produces more serial kill-
ers than any other country. Up to 85 percent of the 
world’s serial killers are in the United States. 
(2) According to a study of the Behavioral Unit 
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serial killing 
has climbed to an almost ‘‘epidemic proportion’’. 
(3) At any given time there are an estimated 
20–50 active serial killers. Serial killers who change 
their targets or methods are often never identified. 
(4) Approximately 500,000 DNA evidence kits 
across the country wait to be processed because of 
a lack of funding. Over 3,000 DNA kits have not 
been processed in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, serial 
killer case. 
SEC. 3. INCREASED GRANTS FOR ANALYSIS AND PROC-
ESSING OF DNA EVIDENCE KIT BACKLOG 
AND OF DNA SAMPLES FROM CONVICTED OF-
FENDERS AND CRIME SCENES. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 
(42 U.S.C. 14135) is amended—
(1) by amending subsection (j)(1) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(1) For grants for the purposes specified in 
paragraph (1) of such subsection—
‘‘(A) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2004; 
‘‘(B) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2005; 
‘‘(C) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2006; 
‘‘(D) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
and 
‘‘(E) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2008.’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(k) AVAILABILITY
OF
FUNDS.—Amounts made 
available for purposes specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) 
of subsection (a) shall remain available until expended and 
priority shall be provided to those municipalities docu-
mented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to possess 
a serial killer.’’. 
(b) ADDITIONAL GRANTS FOR STATES WITH SERIAL 
KILLERS.—There are authorized to be appropriated to the 
Attorney General $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 
through 2008, to be available for grants to States that 
are documented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
to possess a serial killer, to be used by the State only for 
eliminating the backlog in carrying out DNA analyses of 
samples specified in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of sub-
section (a) of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act 
of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135(a)).
SEC. 4. INCLUSION OF DNA SAMPLES FROM ALL PERSONS 
CONVICTED OF VIOLENT FELONIES. 
Section 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination 
Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 14135), as amended by section 
3, is further amended in subsection (b)(3) by inserting be-
fore the semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘, which shall 
include each offense under State law for which a sentence 
of death or imprisonment at hard labor may be imposed’’. 
SEC. 5. SELF DEFENSE CLASSES. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION
OF GRANTS.—The Attorney 
General may make grants to States documented to possess 
a serial killer, to be used by the State to promote and 
develop self-defense classes. 
(b) FIREARMS TRAINING.—Not less than 15 percent 
of the amount of a grant under subsection (a) shall be 
used only for firearms training. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
such sums as may be necessary. 
SEC. 6. CREATION OF SERIAL KILLER PROGRAM WITHIN 
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 
GENERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVI-
SION. 
Immediately upon implementation of this Act, the Di-
rector of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall estab-
lish a Serial Killer Program within the General Criminal