[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2791 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2791

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
  limit funds to States that do not enact laws that require a test to 
    detect the presence of the etiologic agent for acquired immune 
            deficiency syndrome in certain cases of assault.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 15, 1995

  Mr. Manton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
  limit funds to States that do not enact laws that require a test to 
    detect the presence of the etiologic agent for acquired immune 
            deficiency syndrome in certain cases of assault.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TESTING REQUIREMENT.

    Section 506(f) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4);
            (2) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ``paragraph (2)'' and 
        inserting ``paragraphs (2) and (3)''; and
            (3) by adding at the end of paragraph (2) the following:
    ``(3) Paragraph (1)(A) refers to a State that does not have in 
effect, and does not enforce, in such fiscal year, a law that requires 
the State at the request of the victim of an assault that may have 
exposed, by a means recognized by the Center for Disease Control, such 
victim to the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome--
            ``(A) to administer, to the defendant convicted under State 
        law of such assault, a test to detect in such defendant the 
        presence of the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency 
        syndrome;
            ``(B) to disclose the results of such test to such 
        defendant and to the victim of such assault; and
            ``(C) to provide to the victim of such assault counseling 
        regarding HIV disease, HIV testing, in accordance with 
        applicable law, and referral for appropriate health care and 
        support services.''.
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