Ch. 458                                        1994 LAWS OF MARYLAND

standards that certain laboratories shall meet for inclusion in the statewide DNA
data base system; requiring certain testing of the Crime Laboratory and analysts
performing DNA analyses at the Crime Laboratory; requiring the Crime Laboratory
to retain certain records; specifying the duties and responsibilities of the Crime
Laboratory in processing DNA samples; allowing the Director to enter into certain
contracts; specifying which agencies shall have access to the data base system and
the manner of requesting such access; providing that the personal identification
information of DNA profiles may be made available to certain agencies and persons
under certain circumstances; requiring personal identification information of DNA
profiles to be made available to certain persons under certain circumstances;
requiring that a search of the data base be conducted under certain circumstances;
providing that a match between an evidence sample and a data base entry may only
be used for certain purposes and is not admissible at trial unless confirmed by
additional testing; requiring the Director of the Crime Laboratory to create a
population data base comprised of certain information; requiring all personal
identifiers to be removed before information is entered into the population data
base; specifying that certain agencies and third party interests may share in the
population data base information under certain circumstances; providing for the
expungement of certain information from the data base system and repository under
certain conditions and specifying those conditions; requiring the Director of the
Crime Laboratory to purge certain information from the data base system and
repository under certain circumstances; providing for the security and
confidentiality of the statewide DNA data base system and repository; establishing
certain penalties for the disclosing or obtaining of certain information from the
repository or data base system in violation of this Act; making the provisions of this
Act severable; defining certain terms; and generally relating to the creation of a
statewide DNA repository and data base system.

BY adding to

Article 88B - State Police

Section 12A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1991 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 88B - State Police                         

12A.                                                                               

(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS
INDICATED.

(2)      "CODIS" MEANS THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION'S
"COMBINED DNA INDEX SYSTEM" THAT ALLOWS THE STORAGE AND EXCHANGE OF
DNA RECORDS SUBMITTED BY STATE AND LOCAL FORENSIC DNA LABORATORIES.

(3)      "CRIME LABORATORY" MEANS THE MARYLAND STATE POLICE
CRIME LABORATORY DIVISION.

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