Sec. 9. Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement Grants
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Part BB of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 42 U.S.C. 3797j ) is amended— in section 2802(2) ( 42 U.S.C. 3797k(2) ), by inserting after bodies the following: and, except with regard to any medical examiner's office, or coroner's office in the State, is accredited by an accrediting body that is a signatory to an internationally recognized arrangement and that offers accreditation to forensic science conformity assessment bodies using an accreditation standard that is recognized by that internationally recognized arrangement, or attests, in a manner that is legally binding and enforceable, to use a portion of the grant amount to prepare and apply for such accreditation not more than 2 years after the date on which a grant is awarded under section 2801 ; in section 2803(a) ( 42 U.S.C. 3797l(a) )— in paragraph (1)— by striking Seventy-five percent and inserting Eighty-five percent ; and by striking 75 percent and inserting 85 percent ; in paragraph (2), by striking Twenty-five percent and inserting Fifteen percent ; and in paragraph (3), by striking 0.6 percent and inserting 1 percent ; in section 2804(a) ( 42 U.S.C. 3797m(a) )— in paragraph (2)— by inserting impression evidence, after latent prints, ; and by inserting digital evidence, fire evidence, after toxicology, ; in paragraph (3), by inserting and medicolegal death investigators after laboratory personnel ; and by inserting at the end the following:
To address emerging forensic science issues (such as statistics, contextual bias, and uncertainty of measurement) and emerging forensic science technology (such as high throughput automation, statistical software, and new types of instrumentation). To educate and train forensic pathologists. To fund medicolegal death investigation systems to facilitate accreditation of medical examiner and coroner offices and certification of medicolegal death investigators. ; and in section 2806(a) ( 42 U.S.C. 3797o(a) )— in paragraph (3), by striking and at the end; by redesignating paragraph
(4)as paragraph (5); and by inserting after paragraph
(3)the following: the progress of any unaccredited forensic science service provider receiving grant funds toward obtaining accreditation; and . Section 1001(a)(24) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 42 U.S.C. 3793(a)(24) ) is amended— in subparagraph (H), by striking and at the end; in subparagraph (I), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: $13,500,000 for fiscal year 2017; $18,500,000 for fiscal year 2018; $19,000,000 for fiscal year 2019; $21,000,000 for fiscal year 2020; and $23,000,000 for fiscal year 2021. .
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