Rep. Schiff Floor Speech on Katie’s Law – Video

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Rep. Schiff Floor Speech on Katie #39;s Law
On Tuesday, December 18, Rep. Adam Schiff spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives about the Katie Sepich DNA Collection Act of 2012 which establishes a grant program to provide grants to states who implement DNA collection programs for arrestees of murder, sexual assault, kidnapping, burglary, and aggravated assault. States are authorized to collect DNA for a larger subset of crimes but must do so for those felony or misdemeanor arrests. While this new law does not authorize any new funding, it uses funding previously used within the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Reduction Act and specifies that up to $10 million in each fiscal year from 2013 to 2015 may go to grants to states under Katie #39;s law. Originally introduced in 2010, Katie #39;s Law bears the name of Katie Sepich, a college student who was raped and murdered in 2003 in New York. Her attacker was arrested several times for burglary over subsequent years but was never linked to Katie #39;s murder, as his DNA was not collected until 2006.From:AdamSchiffViews:2 0ratingsTime:03:52More inNews Politics

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