DC: Technical Amendments Act of 2001 — Misdemeanor Sexual Abuse Qualifying-Offense Narrowing (B14-216, D.C. Act 14-107, D.C. Law 14-42)

July 24, 2001

Sections 22 and 23 amend paragraph (37) of the qualifying-offense list in § 2 of the DNA Sample Collection Act of 2001 (D.C. Act 14-76) and in the parallel DNA Sample Collection Emergency Act of 2001 (D.C. Act 14-77), striking “(misdemeanor sexual abuse);” and inserting “(misdemeanor sexual abuse) where the offense is committed against a minor;”. Despite the “technical amendments” vehicle, this is a substantive contraction of the DNA collection population; the limitation was reversed in 2009 by D.C. Law 18-88, which restored misdemeanor sexual abuse to the list without the minor-victim qualifier.