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On the recordJune 16, 2016
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported amendments be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The committee-reported amendments were agreed to. The bill (S. 2348), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed, as follows: S. 2348 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Rapid DNA Act of 2016''. SEC. 2. RAPID DNA INSTRUMENTS. (a) Standards.--Section 210303(a) of the DNA Identification Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14131(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``(5)(A) In addition to issuing standards as provided in paragraphs (1) through (4), the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall issue standards and procedures for the use of Rapid DNA instruments and resulting DNA analyses. ``(B) In this Act, the term `Rapid DNA instruments' means instrumentation that carries out a fully automated process to derive a DNA analysis from a DNA sample.''. (b) Index.--Paragraph (2) of section 210304(b) of the DNA Identification Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C.…
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