PRINTER'S NO. 1401
No. 1218 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY LANGTRY, TRELLO, McVERRY, TIGUE, ACOSTA, BELFANTI,
HALUSKA, VROON, BIRMELIN, BUNT, BARLEY, MRKONIC, DEMPSEY,
WOGAN, COLAIZZO, SCHEETZ, SERAFINI, D. F. CLARK, DeLUCA, LEH,
E. Z. TAYLOR, CORRIGAN, ADOLPH AND CIVERA, APRIL 18, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 18, 1989
AN ACT
1 Providing for the examination of patients and inmates of State
2 mental institutions and State and county correctional
3 facilities for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Required testing.
7 All patients and inmates of State mental institutions and
8 State and county prisons, jails, detention facilities and other
9 correctional facilities shall be tested for the presence of HIV
10 infection in relation to acquired immune deficiency syndrome
11 (AIDS) upon admission and each six months thereafter. Patients
12 and inmates testing positive shall be segregated from the
13 uninfected institution or facility population, and their
14 identity shall be made known to all appropriate employees,
15 including those who will have direct physical contact with the
16 affected patients and inmates.
17 Section 2. Testing of current patients and inmates.
1 All persons who are patients or inmates as described in
2 section 1 on the effective date of this act shall be tested
3 within 60 days of the effective date hereof, and each six months
4 thereafter.
5 Section 3. Effective date.
6 This act shall take effect immediately.
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