Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement
Chapter 407 — Dna Identification
§ 40721. Report to Congress on plans to modify CODIS system
Statutory text
If the Department of Justice plans to modify or supplement the core genetic markers needed for compatibility with the CODIS system, it shall notify the Judiciary Committee of the Senate and the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives in writing not later than 180 days before any change is made and explain the reasons for such change.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Debbie Smith Act of 2004
Pub. L. 108–405 title II § 203(f) · 118 Stat. 2260
Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 40721
(Pub. L. 108–405, title II, § 203(f), Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2271.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 108–405, title II, § 203(f), Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2271.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(f) Report to Congress.— If the 28 USC 531 note. Department of Justice plans to modify or supplement the core genetic markers needed for compatibility with the CODIS system, it shall notify the Judiciary Committee of the Senate and the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives in writing not later than 180 days before any change is made and explain the reasons for such change.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is comprised of subsec. (f) of section 203 of Pub. L. 108–405. For complete classification of section 203, see Tables.
Section was formerly classified as a note under section 531 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.