Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-30-313 (2026)
Payment for analysis
✓ current as of May 2026
If an order is issued requiring a DNA analysis be paid on behalf of a petitioner pursuant to this part, then the payment shall be made from funding provided for indigent defendants' counsel as set forth within the annual appropriations act. The payment shall be made only after receipt by the administrative director of the courts of a certified copy of the order and only upon receipt of a bill from the laboratory that conducted the analysis. The bill shall set forth the name of the petitioner, the date the analysis was performed, the amount of the bill, and the name and address of the laboratory to which payment is to be made.
Acts 2001, ch. 444, § 1; T.C.A. § 40-30-413; Acts 2004, ch. 693, § 3.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2004–2025 · leading case: McBee v. Kirby (M.D. Tenn. 2025).
McBee v. Kirby (M.D. Tenn. 2025). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-30-313 . (C) An order issued requiring fingerprint analysis be paid on behalf of a petitioner pursuant to the Post-Conviction Fingerprint Analysis Act of 2021, Tenn.”
United States v. Mynatt, 349 F. Supp. 2d 1056 (E.D. Tenn. 2004). “Furthermore, it could not answer this question, because the legislative history of Tenn.Code Ann. § 40-30-313 reveals that the judicial diversion statute was enacted in 1989, some 40 years after the decision in Brooks .”
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