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This bill, known as the Rapid DNA Act, would look 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.

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