501.14 DNA TESTING OF PRISONERS.
   (a)   As used in this section:
      (1)   "DNA analysis" and "DNA specimen" have the same meaning as in R.C. § 109.573.
      (2)   "Jail" and "community-based correctional facility" have the same meanings as in R.C. § 2929.01.
      (3)   "Post-release control" has the same meaning as in R.C. § 2967.28.
 
   (b)   (1)   A person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony offense and who is sentenced to a prison term or to a community residential sanction in a jail or community-based correctional facility pursuant to R.C. § 2929.16, and a person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a misdemeanor offense listed in division (d) of this section and who is sentenced to a term of imprisonment shall submit to a DNA specimen collection procedure administered by the chief administrative officer of the jail or other detention facility in which the person is serving the term of imprisonment. If the person serves the prison term in a state correctional institution, the Director of Rehabilitation and Correction shall cause the DNA specimen to be collected from the person during the intake process at the reception facility designated by the director. If the person serves the community residential sanction or term of imprisonment in a jail, a community-based correctional facility, or another county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal detention facility, the chief administrative officer of the jail, community-based correctional facility, or detention facility shall cause the DNA specimen to be collected from the person during the intake process at the jail, community-based correctional facility, or detention facility. The DNA specimen shall be collected in accordance with division (c) of this section.
      (2)   If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony offense or a misdemeanor offense listed in division (d) of this section, is serving a prison term, community residential sanction, or term of imprisonment for that offense, and does not provide a DNA specimen pursuant to division (b)(1) of this section prior to the person's release from the prison term, community residential sanction, or imprisonment, the person shall submit to, and the director of rehabilitation and correction or the chief administrative officer of the jail, community-based correctional facility, or detention facility in which the person is serving the prison term, community residential sanction, or term of imprisonment shall administer a DNA specimen collection procedure at the jail, community-based correctional facility, or detention facility in which the person is serving the prison term, community residential sanction, or term of imprisonment. The DNA specimen shall be collected in accordance with division (c) of this section.
      (3)   A.   If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony offense or misdemeanor offense listed in division (d) of this section and the person is on probation, released on parole, under transitional control, on community control, on post- release control, or under any type of supervised release under the supervision of a probation department or the adult parole authority, the person shall submit to a DNA specimen collection procedure administered by the chief administrative officer of the probation department or the adult parole authority. The DNA specimen shall be collected in accordance with division (c) of this section. If the person refuses to submit to a DNA specimen collection procedure as provided in this division, the person may be subject to the provisions of R.C. § 2967.15.
         B.   If the person is sent to jail or is returned to a jail, community-based correctional facility, or state correctional institution for a violation of the terms and conditions of the probation, parole, transitional control, other release, or post- release control, if the person was or will be serving a term of imprisonment, prison term, or community residential sanction for committing a felony offense or for committing a misdemeanor offense listed in division (d) of this section, and if the person did not provide a DNA specimen pursuant to division (b)(1), (2) or (3)A. of this section, the person shall submit to, and the director of rehabilitation and correction or the chief administrative officer of the jail or community-based correctional facility shall administer, a DNA specimen collection procedure at the jail, community-based correctional facility, or state correctional institution in which the person is serving the term of imprisonment, prison term, or community residential sanction. The DNA specimen shall be collected from the person in accordance with division (c) of this section.
      (4)   If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony offense or a misdemeanor offense listed in division (d) of this section, the person is not sentenced to a prison term, a community residential sanction in a jail or community-based correctional facility, a term of imprisonment or any type of supervised release under the supervision of a probation department or the adult parole authority, and the person does not provide a DNA specimen pursuant to division (b)(1), (2), (3)A. or (3)B. of this section, the sentencing court shall order the person to report to the county probation department immediately after sentencing to submit to a DNA specimen collection procedure administered by the chief administrative officer of the county probation office. If the person is incarcerated at the time of sentencing, the person shall submit to a DNA specimen collection procedure administered by the director of rehabilitation and correction or the chief administrative officer of the jail or other detention facility in which the person is incarcerated. The DNA specimen shall be collected in accordance with division (c) of this section.
 
   (c)   If the DNA specimen is collected by withdrawing blood from the person or a similarly invasive procedure, a physician, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, duly licensed clinical laboratory technician, or other qualified medical practitioner shall collect in a medically approved manner the DNA specimen required to be collected pursuant to division (b) of this section. If the DNA specimen is collected by swabbing for buccal cells or a similarly noninvasive procedure, this section does not require that the DNA specimen be collected by a qualified medical practitioner of that nature. No later than 15 days after the date of the collection of the DNA specimen, the director of rehabilitation and correction or the chief administrative officer of the jail, community-based correctional facility, or other county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty- municipal detention facility, in which the person is serving the prison term, community residential sanction, or term of imprisonment shall cause the DNA specimen to be forwarded to the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation in accordance with procedures established by the Superintendent of the Bureau under R.C. § 109.573(H). The Bureau shall provide the specimen vials, mailing tubes, labels, postage, and instructions needed for the collection and forwarding of the DNA specimen to the bureau.
 
   (d)   The director of rehabilitation and correction, the chief administrative officer of the jail, community-based correctional facility, or other county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal detention facility, or the chief administrative officer of a county probation department or the adult parole authority shall cause a DNA specimen to be collected in accordance with divisions (b) and (c) of this section from a person in its custody or under its supervision who is convicted of or pleads guilty to any felony offense or to any of the following misdemeanor offenses:
      (1)   A misdemeanor violation, an attempt to commit a misdemeanor violation, or complicity in committing a misdemeanor violation of R.C. § 2907.04;
      (2)   A misdemeanor violation of any law that arose out of the same facts and circumstances and same act as did a charge against the person of a violation of R.C. §§ 2903.01, 2903.02, 2905.01, 2907.02, 2907.03, 2907.04, 2907.05, or 2911.11 that previously was dismissed or amended or as did a charge against the person of a violation of R.C. § 2907.12 as it existed prior to September 3, 1996, that previously was dismissed or amended;
      (3)   A misdemeanor violation of R.C. § 2919.23 that would have been a violation of R.C. § 2905.04 as it existed prior to July 1, 1996, had it been committed prior to that date;
      (4)   A sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense, both as defined in R.C. § 2950.01, that is a misdemeanor, if, in relation to that offense, the offender has been adjudicated a sexual predator, child-victim predator, habitual sex offender, or habitual child-victim offender, all as defined in R.C. § 2950.01;
 
   (e)   The director of rehabilitation and correction may prescribe rules in accordance with R.C. Chapter 119 to collect a DNA specimen, as provided in this section, from an offender whose supervision is transferred from another state to this state in accordance with the interstate compact for adult offender supervision described in R.C. § 5149.21.
(R.C. § 2901.07)