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2014 SESSION
14103900DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 9.1-1101.1 as follows:
§ 9.1-1101.1. Physical evidence recovery kits; inventory.
The Department shall create and maintain an inventory of all physical evidence recovery kits collected by the Department of State Police or a local law-enforcement agency in connection with a criminal investigation that have not been submitted to the Department for analysis prior to July 1, 2014. Arrangements shall be made between the Department and the Department of State Police and local law-enforcement agencies to submit such physical evidence recovery kits to the Department by January 1, 2015.
2. That the Department of Forensic Science shall prescribe the form and manner in which the Department of State Police and local law-enforcement agencies shall submit the information required in the first enactment of this act.
3. That the Department of Forensic Science shall submit a report to the General Assembly summarizing the results of its inventory prior to the 2015 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Such report shall also include a plan for analyzing all physical evidence recovery kits submitted pursuant to the first enactment of this act [ , and make recommendations regarding categories of physical evidence recovery kits for which testing would be impractical or unproductive ] .
[ 4. That the provisions of this act shall not become effective unless an appropriation effectuating the purposes of this act is included in a general appropriation act passed in 2014 by the General Assembly that becomes law. ]