Sec. 203. Pilot program on improving crime scene investigations and death investigations involving illicit synthetic drugs
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The Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and subject to the availability of appropriations, shall carry out a pilot program to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of implementing emerging technologies and training to improve State and local government crime scene investigations that involve illicit synthetic drugs. The pilot program required under subsection
(a)may include the development of protocols and tools— to prevent accidental exposure to illicit synthetic drugs to crime scene technicians, medical examiners, and coroners; and to increase the accessibility of detection technology and rapid toxicology for screening and triage for State, local, territorial, and Tribal crime scene technicians, medical examiners, and coroners. It is the sense of Congress that protocols and tools developed pursuant to subsection
(b)should be compatible with the prevailing analytical methodologies utilized by law enforcement and forensic experts and accepted in judicial settings.