A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that a DNA sample and analysis shall be required of any person convicted of a felony.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 15A‑266.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 15A‑266.1.  Policy.
It is the policy of the State to assist federal, State, and local criminal justice and law enforcement agencies in the identification, detection, or exclusion of individuals who are subjects of the investigation or prosecution of felonies and violent crimes against the person. Identification, detection, and exclusion is facilitated by the analysis of biological evidence that is often left by the perpetrator or is recovered from the crime scene. The analysis of biological evidence can also be used to identify missing persons and victims of mass disasters."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 15A‑266.4 reads as rewritten:
"§ 15A‑266.4.  Blood sample required for DNA analysis upon conviction.
(a)	On or after 1 July 1994, a person who is convicted of any of the crimes listed in subsection (b) of this section shall have a DNA sample drawn upon intake to a jail or prison. In addition, every person convicted on or after 1 July 1994, of any of these crimes, but who is not sentenced to a term of confinement, shall provide a DNA sample as a condition of the sentence. A person who has been convicted and incarcerated as a result of a conviction of one or more of these crimes prior to 1 July 1994 shall have a DNA sample drawn before parole or release from the penal system.
(b)	Crimes covered by this Article include:
		All felonies.
G.S. 14‑32.1	—	Assaults on handicapped persons.
G.S. 14‑277.3	—	Stalking.
"SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2003.