Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5107) to protect crime victims' rights, to eliminate the substantial backlog of DNA samples collected from crime scenes and convicted offenders, to improve and expand the DNA testing capacity of Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to increase research and development of new DNA testing technologies, to develop new training programs regarding the collection and use of DNA evidence, to provide post-conviction testing of DNA evidence to exonerate the innocent, to improve the performance of counsel in State capital cases, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.Res. 823.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 108-737 ↗.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/108/HRPT/737

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.Res. 823, 108th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/hres/823

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  713ecd6d61ecfeaa6808e19ae2fc19153fa465c4c8c96507548268ec349f96e4

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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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