---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 40727"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "40727"
heading: "Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/40727"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Criminal Records and Information"
  - "Chapter 407 — Dna Identification"
  - "Subchapter II — Training, Technology, Research, and Expanded Use"
---

# §40727. Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program

- (a) **In general—** The Attorney General shall establish the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Program to award grants to [States](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11) to help defray the costs of post-conviction DNA testing.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021 to carry out this section.
- (c) **State defined—** For purposes of this section, the term “[State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11)” means a [State](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11) of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–405, title IV, § 412, Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2284; Pub. L. 114–324, § 12(b), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1957.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14136e of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2016—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 114–324 substituted “$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021” for “$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2009”.