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MI SB1137
Bill
AI Summary
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Requires all incoming prisoners at state correctional facilities to undergo testing for HIV and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) upon arrival at a reception center, unless tested within the preceding 3 months.
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Mandates the department house prisoners with positive HIV or HCV test results who commit sexual misconduct, intravenous drug use, or assaultive behavior in administrative segregation or separate units away from the general population.
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Allows department employees who sustain blood or body fluid exposure to request testing of the prisoner involved; the department must test if reasonable cause exists and may test without the prisoner's consent.
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Requires notification of test results to exposed employees within 2 days, with results kept confidential and not identifying the prisoner; unauthorized disclosure is a misdemeanor.
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Prohibits prisoners with positive HIV or HCV results from working in department-operated health facilities and requires comprehensive AIDS and HCV education programs for staff and prisoners.
Legislative Description
Corrections; prisoners; testing for hepatitis C virus in correctional facilities; require upon prisoner entering a correctional facility and allow certain employees to request testing. Amends secs. 67 & 67b of 1953 PA 232 (MCL 791.267 & 791.267b). TIE BAR WITH: SB 1130'14
State agencies (existing), community health
Last Action
Referred To Committee On Appropriations
12/3/2014