HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 444        FILED ON: 1/13/2015

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1371

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

_________________

PRESENTED BY:

Paul R. Heroux

_________________

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to the exposure of public safety officials to the aids virus.

_______________

PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Paul R. Heroux

2nd Bristol

1/13/2015

Michael O. Moore

Second Worcester

1/23/2015

Timothy R. Whelan

1st Barnstable

1/21/2015


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 444        FILED ON: 1/13/2015

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1371

By Mr. Heroux of Attleboro, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1371) of Paul R. Heroux, Michael O. Moore and Timothy R. Whelan for legislation to establish a HIV testing procedure in correctional institutions in the Commonwealth.  The Judiciary.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 1328 OF 2013-2014.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

_______________

In the One Hundred and Eighty-Ninth General Court
(2015-2016)

_______________

 

An Act relative to the exposure of public safety officials to the aids virus.

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Paragraph one of Section 7_OF of Chapter 111 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2002 Official Edition, shall be amended by inserting at the beginning of the first sentence, before the words "No health care facility," the following: -- Except as herein provided.

(a)

SECTION 2. Section 70F of Chapter 111 of the General Laws shall be further amended by inserting after the fourth paragraph the following: -- Provided, however, that a police officer or other law enforcement official, fire

(b) fighter, emergency medical technician or medical personnel, or other public safety official, who, in the course of his official duties, is bitten or scratched by a person, is stabbed or scratched by a hypodermic needle in the possession of that person, or is otherwise exposed to the transfer of blood, semen, or other bodily fluid on, upon, or through, his skin or membranes by that person, and where that person is the subject of a criminal complaint or indictment, the exposed official may petition the court having jurisdiction of the complaint or indictment for an order compelling the subject of the complaint or indictment to be tested for the HLTV-III antibody or antigen.