Title 34 — NavyRelease 119-73
§40727 Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program
Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle IV— - Criminal Records and Information › Chapter CHAPTER 407— - DNA IDENTIFICATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - TRAINING, TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH, AND EXPANDED USE › § 40727
Summary
Attorney General must create a grant program to help States pay for post‑conviction DNA testing. $10,000,000 per year authorized for 2017–2021. 'State' means a U.S. State, the District of Columbia, and certain U.S. territories.
Full Legal Text
Title 34, §40727
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(a)The Attorney General shall establish the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program to award grants to States to help defray the costs of post-conviction DNA testing.
(b)There are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021 to carry out this section.
(c)For purposes of this section, the term “State” means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Legislative History
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 14136e of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Amendments
2016—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 114–324 substituted “$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021” for “$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2009”.
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Citation
34 U.S.C. § 40727
Title 34 — Navy
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73