[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 518 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 518

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide the death penalty for 
the intentional transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus to an 
                 innocent victim of a Federal offense.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 1997

Mr. Burton of Indiana 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 the death penalty for 
the intentional transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus to an 
                 innocent victim of a Federal offense.

    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 ``Protection for Innocent Victims of 
AIDS Transmission Act''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION FOR INNOCENT VICTIMS OF AIDS TRANSMISSION.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 1122. Protection for innocent victims of AIDS transmission
    ``(a) In General.--Whoever, during the commission of any Federal 
offense, knowingly engages in any sexual contact with another person 
and through such contact knowingly transfers the human immunodeficiency 
virus to that person, without that person's consent, or attempts to do 
so, shall be subject to the penalty of death, or shall be imprisoned 
for life or any term of years.
    ``(b) Procedures.--For the purposes of chapter 228 of this title, 
an offense under this section shall be deemed a homicide offense.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following:

``1122. Protection for innocent victims of AIDS transmission.''.
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