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Texas will receive more than $2 million in federal grants to fund crime laboratories and reduce the state's backlog of non-DNA forensic evidence. Senator John Cornyn announced the plan last Thursday as part of the Justice for All Reauthorization Act, a 2016 bill that the Texas Republican sponsored. Cornyn's office says the state has a backlog of more than 28-thousand pieces of forensic evidence. Most of the federal money will be awarded to the governor's office, with the rest distributed among several cities.