Analysis of the Budget Bill (Major Analyses)
Criminal Justice
Proposition 69 (DNA) Request Overbudgeted
February 24, 2005
The Governor’s budget includes funds for implementation of Proposition 69—DNA Collection—by the Departments of Justice, Corrections, and Youth Authority. While these departments will require funding to collect and process tens of thousands of additional DNA samples in 2005-06, our analysis indicates that the requests for Corrections and Youth Authority are overbudgeted by $3.5 million.
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