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'Senate Bill 1242' On April 9, 2002 California Senator James Brulte (Rep.) introduced Senate Bill 1242 to the California State Assembly in Sacramento. Bill 1242 passes the California State Assembly with a vote of 39 to 0. The following year, 2003, California Governor Gray Davis signed Bill 1242 into law. What is Bill 1242? It now is a law that ''commands any felon in California to contribute their Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), even if currently incarcerated''. It began a U.S. wide "epidemic". In 1989 the F.B.I. with 14 States began a data base to enter Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). After many States followed suit with California, the data base, Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), has been increasing and the number of offenders has highly escalated. Many unsolved crimes, from up to 57 years, have been met with justice.