---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 60903"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "60903"
heading: "Full reinvestigation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/60903"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Other Crime Control and Law Enforcement Matters"
  - "Chapter 609 — Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights"
---

# §60903. Full reinvestigation

- (a) **In general—** The [agency](/usc/34/60911.md?p=5) shall conduct a full reinvestigation of the [cold case murder](/usc/34/60911.md?p=6) at issue if the review of the case file required by [section 60901 of this title](/usc/34/60901.md) concludes that a full reinvestigation of such [cold case murder](/usc/34/60911.md?p=6) would result in probative investigative leads.
- (b) **Reinvestigation—** A full reinvestigation shall include analyzing all evidence regarding the [cold case murder](/usc/34/60911.md?p=6) at issue for the purpose of developing probative investigative leads or a likely perpetrator.
- (c) **Reviewer—** A reinvestigation required under [subsection (a)](#a) shall not be conducted by a person who previously investigated the [murder](/usc/34/60911.md?p=4) at issue.
- (d) **Prohibition on multiple concurrent reviews—** Only one full reinvestigation shall be undertaken at any one time with respect to the same [cold case murder](/usc/34/60911.md?p=6) [victim](/usc/34/60911.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–164, § 4, Aug. 3, 2022, 136 Stat. 1359.)