Sec. 4. Prosecution of DNA cold cases
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Section 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 ( 42 U.S.C. 14135 ) is amended— in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following: To increase the capacity of State and local prosecution offices to address the backlog of violent crime cases in which suspects have been identified through DNA evidence. ; and in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following: For each fiscal year, not less than 5 percent, but not more than 7 percent, of the grant amounts distributed under paragraph
(1)shall, if sufficient applications to justify such amounts are received by the Attorney General, be awarded for purposes described in subsection (a)(9), provided that none of the funds required to be distributed under this paragraph shall decrease or otherwise limit the availability of funds required to be awarded to States or units of local government under paragraph (3). . Section 3(a) of the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2016 ( Public Law 114–324 ; 130 Stat. 1949) is amended— in paragraph (1), by striking and at the end; in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: not less than 5 percent, but not more than 7 percent, of such amounts shall be provided for grants for prosecutors to increase the capacity of State and local prosecution offices to address the backlog of violent crime cases in which suspects have been identified through DNA evidence. .
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- Pub. L. 114-324
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