HB1688: Prisoners; mandatory testing for human immunodeficiency virus.


HOUSE BILL NO. 1688
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the House Committee on Militia, Police, and Public Safety
on February 4, 2011)
(Patrons Prior to Substitute--Delegates Dance and Alexander [HB 1662])
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 53.1-33.1, relating to testing inmates for HIV.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 53.1-33.1 as follows:

§ 53.1-33.1. Mandatory testing for human immunodeficiency virus.

The Department shall offer to test each inmate, who does not have a record of a positive test result, for infection with human immunodeficiency virus within 60 days of the scheduled discharge of the inmate from a state correctional facility. Prior to administering a test for human immunodeficiency virus, the Department shall inform, or cause to be informed, the inmate to be tested of the purpose of the test. Any inmate may choose not to be tested.

HOUSE BILL NO. 1688
Offered January 12, 2011
Prefiled January 10, 2011
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 53.1-33.1, relating to testing inmates for HIV.
Patron-- Dance

Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 53.1-33.1 as follows:

§ 53.1-33.1. Mandatory testing for human immunodeficiency virus.

The Department shall offer to test each inmate, who does not have a record of a positive test result, for infection with human immunodeficiency virus within 60 days of the scheduled discharge of the inmate from a state correctional facility. Prior to administering a test for human immunodeficiency virus, the Department shall inform, or cause to be informed, the inmate to be tested of the purpose of the test. Any inmate may choose not to be tested.