34 USC § 40727 - Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program

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title: "34 USC § 40727 - Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program"
title_number: 34
title_name: "CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT"
section_number: "40727"
section_name: "Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program"
chapter_number: 407
chapter_name: "DNA IDENTIFICATION"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "TRAINING, TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH, AND EXPANDED USE"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 108–405, title IV, § 412, Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2284; Pub. L. 114–324, § 12(b), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1957.)"
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# § 40727. Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program

**(a)** **In general** The Attorney General shall establish the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program to award grants to States to help defray the costs of post-conviction DNA testing.

**(b)** **Authorization of appropriations** There are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021 to carry out this section.

**(c)** **State defined** For purposes of this section, the term “State” means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 108–405, title IV, § 412, Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2284; Pub. L. 114–324, § 12(b), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1957.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to , The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2016—Subsec. (b).  substituted “$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021” for “$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2009”.