Bill Text: MI HB6020 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Health; diseases; crime of sexual penetration while HIV infected; modify, and reduce penalties. Amends sec. 5210 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.5210).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-31 - Assigned Pa 537'18 With Immediate Effect [HB6020 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB6020-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 6020
May 16, 2018, Introduced by Rep. Hoadley and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending section 5210 (MCL 333.5210), as added by 1988 PA 490.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 5210. (1) A person who knows that he or she has or has
been
diagnosed as having acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or
acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome related complex, or who knows
that
he or she is being HIV infected
or who otherwise knows that he
or
she is HIV infected, and who engages
exposes an uninfected
person to HIV by engaging in sexual penetration with another person
without
having first informed the other person that he or she has
acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome
related complex or is HIV infected with the intent that
the uninfected person contract HIV, and whose engagement in sexual
penetration with the other person actually results in the
uninfected person's becoming HIV infected is guilty of a
felony.misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not
more than 1
year or a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both.
(2) As used in this section, "sexual penetration" means sexual
intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anal intercourse, or any other
intrusion, however slight, of any part of a person's body or of any
object into the genital or anal openings of another person's body,
but emission of semen is not required.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
