(b) The center shall use any available federal funding to assist in reducing the backlog of high-risk missing person cases and unidentified human remains.
(c) The reduction of the backlog may be outsourced to other appropriate laboratories at the center's discretion.
Transferred from Education Code, Subchapter I, Chapter 105 by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 319 (S.B. 651), Sec. 2, eff. June 17, 2005.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 1 - Code of Criminal Procedure
Chapter 63 - Missing Children and Missing Persons
Article 63.0515. Criminal Justice Agency
Article 63.052. Establishment of DNA Database for Missing or Unidentified Persons
Article 63.053. Information Stored in Database
Article 63.054. Comparison of Samples
Article 63.055. Standards Collection; Storage
Article 63.056. Collection of Samples From Unidentified Human Remains
Article 63.059. Protocol for Obtaining Samples Relating to High-Risk Missing Persons
Article 63.060. Submission of Sample to Center
Article 63.061. Destruction of Samples
Article 63.062. Confidentiality
Article 63.063. Criminal Penalty
Article 63.065. Missing Persons DNA Database Fund
Article 63.066. Backlog of Unidentified Human Remains: Advisory Committee and Outsourcing