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FL H0719

Bill

Status

Failed

3/10/2018

Primary Sponsor

Nicholas Duran

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Origin

House of Representatives

2018 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes the "HIV Prevention Justice Act" to revise Florida's laws regarding transmission of sexually transmissible diseases, including adding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection to the list of covered diseases.

  • Allows donation of blood, plasma, organs, skin, or other human tissue by HIV-positive individuals when deemed medically appropriate by a licensed physician, and reduces the offense from felony to misdemeanor.

  • Requires that unlawful disease transmission must involve intent to transmit the disease, conduct posing substantial risk of transmission, and actual transmission to an unaware person; establishes that merely failing to follow treatment or behavioral recommendations does not establish intent.

  • Defines "sexual conduct" to include penis-vulva, penis-anus, or mouth contact with penis, vulva, or anus; defines "substantial risk of transmission" as reasonable probability proven by competent medical or epidemiological evidence.

  • Changes penalties for various disease transmission offenses and clarifies that persons in good faith compliance with health care provider treatment regimens or behavioral recommendations (including use of prophylactic devices) do not act with unlawful intent; effective July 1, 2018.

Legislative Description

Transmission of Disease Through Bodily Fluids

Last Action

Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee

3/10/2018

Committee Referrals

Criminal Justice Subcommittee11/27/2017

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