Bills

SB 537: Department of Justice: Bureau of Forensic Services.

  • Session Year: 2017-2018
  • House: Senate
  • Latest Version Date: 2017-02-16
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Existing law establishes the Department of Justice and establishes within the departments Bureau of Forensic Services, the California Criminalistics Institute to, among other purposes, facilitate a comprehensive and coordinated approach to meet the high technology forensic science needs of crime laboratories.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact urgency legislation to provide a supplemental funding source for the Department of Justices Bureau of Forensic Services to sustain its operation of individualizing feature comparison programs.

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Introduced (2/16/2017)

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