A State House Committee has approved a measure authored by State Representative Lee Denney of Cushing and sent it on to the full House for further consideraiton.
The bill by Denney, R-Cushing, would allow DNA samples to be taken from anyone arrested for a felony crime such as murder or rape. Current law allows for DNA to be taken from men and women convicted of felonies. The results are placed in a national database to be used by police to solve other crimes.
The measure is named on honor of Juli Busken, a University of Oklahoma co-ed who was raped and murdered in 1996.
The crime was solved when DNA taken from the crime scene turned up a match from a prison inmate convicted of another crime.
