(a) Requirement to Maintain DNA QA Database Separately. A crime laboratory's DNA QA database must be maintained separately from any other local, state, or federal database, including the CODIS DNA database established by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(b) Prohibited Upload of Elimination Samples. Crime laboratories are prohibited from uploading or storing a DNA record created from an elimination sample, or any other information derived from that record, in any database other than the DNA QA database maintained by the crime laboratory. Nothing in this subchapter prohibits a crime laboratory from maintaining case information, including DNA records, as required to comply with accrediting body standards or applicable law, including but not limited to article 39.14, Code of Criminal Procedure.
(c) Prohibited Access to DNA QA Database Records. Crime laboratories are prohibited from allowing any other person, other than authorized users, access to the crime laboratory's DNA QA database.
(d) Timeline for Removal of Elimination Samples. Crime laboratories that maintain a DNA QA database must, not later than three months after the date on which a forensic DNA analysis of an elimination sample is completed, remove from the DNA QA database the DNA record created from the elimination sample and any other information derived from that record that is contained in the database.

Source Note: The provisions of this §651.503 adopted to be effective March 20, 2024, 49 TexReg 1503