HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2040        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1322

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the collection of DNA..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Section 3 of Chapter 22E of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby further amended, by striking the first sentence and replacing it with the following:-

                “Any person who is convicted of an offense that is punishable by imprisonment in a state prison, any person adjudicated a youthful offender by reason of an offense that would be punishable by imprisonment in a state prison if committed by an adult, and any person who was convicted of an offense which permitted any period of incarceration in a house of correction as a penalty whether or not the person was so sentenced, shall submit a DNA sample to the department within 1 year of such conviction or adjudication or, if incarcerated, before release from custody, whichever occurs first.