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Last month JonBenet's father testified in support of Arkansas 'Juli's Law' but yesterday this bill failed to gather enough votes to make it out of committee. Juli's Law would allow Arkansas law enforcement to join the 15 other states that already passed laws to collect DNA from those arrested for violent crimes--

Bill to Allow Guns in Arkansas Church Shot Down Second Time
by Lauren Lea
Mar 25, 2009

"...Supporters say Juli's Law would have passed, had all members been present for the vote. Parents of murdered children tesified before the committee today, including John Ramsey, father of JonBenet Ramsey, and Mary Jean Busken, mother of Juli Busken...

However, they failed to get the five votes needed to move the bill out of the committee. Three senators were absent for the vote: Sen. Ruth Whitaker, Sen. Hank Wilkins and Sen. Robert Thompson...

Rep. Dawn Creekmore, the sponsor of Juli's Law, says she will try again to get the five votes..."