Section was formerly classified to section 14136a of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
2022—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–103, § 1318(b), added subsec. (a) and struck out former subsec. (a). Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Attorney General shall make grants to eligible entities to provide training, technical assistance, education, equipment, and information relating to the identification, collection, preservation, analysis, and use of DNA samples and DNA evidence by medical personnel and other personnel, including doctors, medical examiners, coroners, nurses, victim service providers, and other professionals involved in treating victims of sexual assault and sexual assault examination programs, including SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner), SAFE (Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner), and SART (Sexual Assault Response Team).”
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–103, § 1318(b), (c), added subsec. (b) and struck out former subsec. (b) which defined “eligible entity”.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 117–103, § 1318(b), (d)(2), added subsec. (c) and struck out former subsec. (c) which related to preference given to certain eligible entities for grants and promoting the role and employment of forensic nurses.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 117–103, § 1318(d)(2), added subsec. (d). Former subsec. (d) redesignated (e).
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 117–103, § 1318(d)(2), (e), redesignated subsec. (d) as (e) and amended it generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. authorized appropriation of $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2024 to carry out this section.
2019—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 116–104 substituted “2019 through 2024” for “2015 through 2019”.
2018—Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 115–107 inserted “, both adult and pediatric,” after “role of forensic nurses” and substituted “elder abuse, and, in particular, the need for pediatric sexual assault nurse examiners, including such nurse examiners working in the multidisciplinary setting, in responding to abuse of both children and adolescents” for “and elder abuse”.
2016—Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 114–324 added subsec. (c) and redesignated former subsec. (c) as (d).
2014—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 113–182 substituted “2015 through 2019” for “2009 through 2014”.
2008—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 110–360 substituted “2009 through 2014” for “2005 through 2009”.
Amendment by Pub. L. 117–103 not effective until Oct. 1 of the first fiscal year beginning after