[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2070 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2070

  To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the mandatory 
  testing for serious transmissible diseases of incarcerated persons 
 whose bodily fluids come into contact with corrections personnel and 
 notice to those personnel of the results of the tests, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 1997

Mr. Solomon (for himself and Mr. Condit) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the mandatory 
  testing for serious transmissible diseases of incarcerated persons 
 whose bodily fluids come into contact with corrections personnel and 
 notice to those personnel of the results of the tests, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Correction Officers Health and 
Safety Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. TESTING FOR TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASE OF CERTAIN INCARCERATED 
              PERSONS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 301 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 4014. Testing for transmissible disease
    ``(a) If the bodily fluids, of a person who is incarcerated in a 
Federal correctional facility, that are capable of causing a serious 
transmissible disease come into contact with any officer or employee of 
the United States or any other person not so incarcerated, the Attorney 
General shall, under such rules as the Attorney General makes to carry 
out this section, cause the incarcerated person to be tested for those 
diseases and promptly communicate in writing the results of the tests 
to the person with whom such fluids came into contact. If any such 
tests indicate that such a disease might have been transmitted, the 
Attorney General shall make appropriate referrals for counseling and 
health care and support services.
    ``(b) As used in this section, the term `serious transmissible 
disease' means the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or any of its 
derivatives, hepatitis and any of its derivatives, tuberculosis, and 
any other serious illness which an exposed person might reasonably 
expect to contract from the contact.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 301 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following:

``4014. Testing for transmissible disease.''.
    (c) Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this 
section, the Attorney General, in consultation with the Corrections and 
Criminal Justice Coalition, shall make voluntary national guidelines 
for testing for serious transmissible diseases of incarcerated persons 
whose bodily fluids come into contact with corrections personnel or 
other persons and for the provision of notice to persons with whom 
those bodily fluids came into contact of the results of such tests.
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