| Resolution Number: | 2000-D070 |
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| Title: | Support Legislation on DNA Testing for Accused Persons and Prisoners |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred |
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Resolved, That the 73rd General Convention call on state and federal governments to enact legislation to ensure that DNA testing be made available to accused persons when evidence to allow such testing is available or can be collected; and be it further
Resolved, That such testing should be made available to prisoners at any time during the corrections process to ensure that innocent persons are not wrongly incarcerated or executed.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 2000 (New York: General Convention, 2001), p. 681. |
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Legislative History
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| Originating House: | House of Bishops |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on Social and Urban Affairs |
House of Bishops
Original Text of Resolution:
(D070)
Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 73rd General Convention call on state and federal governments to enact legislation to ensure that DNA testing be made available to accused persons when evidence to allow such testing is available or can be collected; and be it further
Resolved, That such testing should be made available to prisoners at any time during the corrections process to ensure that innocent persons are not wrongly incarcerated or executed.
Motion carried
Resolution adopted
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #251)
House of Deputies
The House of Deputies Committee on Social and Urban Affairs presented its Report #32 on HB Message #251 on Resolution D070 (Make DNA Testing Available to Accused Persons) and moved concurrence.
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #282)
Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 14.
| Abstract: | The 73rd General Convention supports legislation to make DNA testing available to accused persons and prisoners at any time during the corrections process. |
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