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TITLE 37PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS
PART 1TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
CHAPTER 28DNA, CODIS, FORENSIC ANALYSIS, AND CRIME LABORATORIES
SUBCHAPTER HDATABASE RECORDS
RULE §28.122Purpose and Applicability
(a) Purpose. This subchapter contains the director's rules governing the taking of a biological sample from certain eligible individuals by an agency in order to populate the DPS DNA database.

 (b) Applicability. The general law and rules governing CODIS apply to this subchapter except as otherwise provided by this subchapter.

  (1) This subchapter applies to a standard DNA sample taken from an eligible individual for an offense covered by this subchapter.

  (2) This subchapter does not apply to:

    (A) a DNA sample or record maintained by the director under Subchapter F of this chapter; or

     (B) a suspect reference sample that is not a voluntary sample described by §28.123(6) of this title (relating to Eligible Individual).

Source Note: The provisions of this §28.122 adopted to be effective June 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 4437; amended to be effective December 11, 2017, 42 TexReg 6943

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