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Panel adopts amendment and approves bill letting crime lab limit mandatory firearm submissions
CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE · April 2, 2019
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Summary
The committee adopted an amendment and passed HB1217 to allow the State Crime Lab discretion to accept only firearms that produce forensically useful data for entry into the national ballistic database; the director said about 42% of firearms currently submitted yield no probative result for the database.
Senator Garner introduced House Bill 1217 with Carmen Channel, director of the State Crime Lab. Channel said the current law requires law enforcement to submit all firearms found in connection with a felony for entry into the ATF-run National Ballistic Database;…
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