ORIGINAL ARTICLE, PHOTOS, AND MORE INFO CAN BE FOUND HERE:
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/several-crime-bills-would-expand-state-s-dna-databank-1.1879750

Newsday (subscription needed - see NOTE below)

...The bills aim to solve cold cases like the one involving a former Long Island resident accused last week of being a serial killer...

NOTE: You have to be subscribed to Newsday to read the whole story so we went here to get the bills currently (2010 APR 24) in the New York State Assembly and Senate relating to DNA:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg

These are the ones that came up. You can read more about each bill by clicking on the Bill Number to the very far left that begins with either an A (Assembly) or S (Senate):

A00628 - Establishes penalties for failure to provide a DNA sample and failure to register or verify as a sex offender

A03667 - Establishes certain persons who have previously provided a DNA sample shall not be required to pay a DNA databank fee for his or her conviction for certain offenses

A04137 - Relates to DNA testing

A04533 - Requires county medical examiners or coroners to give the state police forensic laboratory DNA samples of unidentified dead or alive and missing persons upon request

A04559 - Makes numerous modifications to provisions of various laws relating to the family court act and child custody matters; repealer

A04974 - Requires hospital to offer DNA testing of newborns or take blood samples from newborns for future DNA testing

A05083 - Authorizes DNA testing in certain additional circumstances

A05113 - Creates a new crime of electronic stalking and provides for a conviction for electronic stalking to trigger submission to the DNA databank

A05128 - Relates to requests for certain comparisons of DNA test results and disclosure of such information

A05179 - Provides for DNA testing, collection and record keeping; indictments by fictitious name in DNA cases, and creating the innocence project program

A06082 - Authorizes disclosure of DNA information in the state DNA identification index to any public agency in connection with a criminal investigation

A06101 - Provides that where the court determines that there is relevant admissible evidence containing deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), such evidence shall be admitted

A06186 - Relates to the collection of DNA samples of designated offenders, the preservation of biological evidence and establishes the commission of exoneration review

A06528 - Relates to forensic DNA testing and to requests for certain DNA test comparisons

A08465 - Enacts the "sexual assault forensic act"

A09225 - Relates to forensic DNA testing and to requests for certain DNA test comparisons

A09425 - Provides that people arrested in connection with a felony must submit a DNA sample

A09936 - Requires written notification to parents of infants whose DNA or blood spots are retained

S00116 - Requires any person who is convicted of a felony, a misdemeanor or a youthful offender shall be a designated offender and required to submit to DNA testing

S00583 - Provides that where the court determines that there is relevant admissible evidence containing deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), such evidence shall be admitted

S01479 - Extends statute of limitation for commencing criminal case when DNA evidence is recovered at a crime scene but the evidence does not match anyone in the DNA index

S02675 - Establishes the "All Felons DNA Database Act"

S03110 - Provides for the collection of DNA samples from all persons convicted of a crime and establishes the office of wrongful evidence review; repealer

S03111 - Includes the conviction of any offense for which fingerprints are required to be taken upon arrest within the designated offenses requiring a DNA sample

S04308 - Relates to the collection of DNA samples of designated offenders, the preservation of biological evidence and establishes the commission of exoneration review

S04396 - Establishes penalties for failure to provide a DNA sample and failure to register or verify as a sex offender

S04668 - Relates to forensic DNA testing and to requests for certain DNA test comparisons

S05364 - Creates a new crime of electronic stalking and provides for a conviction for electronic stalking to trigger submission to the DNA databank

S05894 - Relates to the collection of DNA samples from designated offenders and the release of certain criminal records

S06213 - Provides that people arrested in connection with a felony must submit a DNA sample

S06235 - Relates to forensic DNA testing and to requests for certain DNA test comparisons

S06606 - Enacts into law major components of legislation which are necessary to implement the Public Protection and General Government state fiscal plan for the 2010-2011 st

S07524 - Requires written notification to parents of infants whose DNA or blood spots are retained