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This bill seeks to increase the speed at which law enforcement collects DNA. It would do so by allowing police officers to collect DNA evidence with automated DNA collection systems in law enforcement facilities like jails and prisons.

\"Rapid\" DNA analysis — where this bill gets its name — can be done in \"a machine the size of a large desktop printer that can unravel your genetic code in the time it takes to watch a movie.\" Once a DNA profile is created, the machine can check it against a database — then report if and where there is a match.

Law enforcement officials in Arizona, Florida, and South Carolina have already started employing this technology, and it has been tested out in China, Russia, and Australia.

","official_title":"To establish a system for integration of Rapid DNA instruments for use by law enforcement to reduce violent crime and reduce the current DNA analysis backlog.","short_title":"Rapid DNA Act of 2016","popular_title":null,"short_summary":"Rapid DNA Act of 2015\n\nAmends the DNA Identification Act of 1994 to require:\n\n the advisory board on DNA quality assurance methods appointed by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to include members from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies; such board to develop, and the Director to issue, standards for testing the proficiency of qualified agencies (i.e., booking stations, jails, prisons, detention centers, other law enforcement organizations and facilities outside of forensic laboratories) and operators in conducting analyses of DNA samples using sample-to-answer DNA analysis systems (i.e., fully automated systems that prepare and analyze DNA samples with no operator intervention); the National Institute of Justice to certify that the blind external proficiency testing program for DNA analyses has been established and made available to such qualified agencies or is not feasible; and the Index to facilitate law enforcement exchange of DNA identification in...","summarized":true,"cost":null,"cost_commentary":"A CBO cost estimate is unavailable. 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