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HCR 42, 82nd R.S.
Expressing support for the current FBI effort to reevaluate existing policies, standards, and protocols for forensic DNA testing laboratories and expressing support for any new policies, standards, and protocols that would hold public and private labs to the same standards, audits, and review process, urging Congress to pass any necessary federal legislation that ensures continued quality in forensic science while holding public and private lab DNA analysis to the same standards, and encouraging Texas law enforcement agencies to use forensic science review methods that will eliminate DNA testing backlogs.

Last action: Signed by the Governor

Author: Jerry Madden
Sponsor: Tommy Williams
CoSponsor: Wendy Davis

Session Law Chapter: Acts 2011, 82nd R.S., HCR 42

Signed legislation

Subjects:
DNA
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
FORENSIC TESTING
Resolutions--Legislative Policy
Resolutions--Memorializing Congress

House Committee: Corrections (Jerry Madden, Alma Allen, Erwin Cain, Todd Hunter, Marisa Marquez, Tan Parker, Charles Perry, James White, Paul Workman)
Minutes: April 20 2011 | April 26 2011
Senate Committee: Transportation & Homeland Security (Robert Nichols, Tommy Williams, Wendy Davis, Rodney Ellis, Chris Harris, Juan Hinojosa, Florence Shapiro, Kirk Watson, Jeff Wentworth)
Minutes: May 18 2011

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