HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 249 FILED ON: 12/30/2008
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1412
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
William G. Greene, Jr.
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To the Honorable Senate and House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:
An Act relative to HIV and AIDS testing.
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PETITION
OF:
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Name:
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District/Address:
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William G. Greene, Jr.
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22nd Middlesex
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Elizabeth Poirier
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14th Bristol
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Christine E. Canavan
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10th Plymouth
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Cory Atkins
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14th Middlesex
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[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 2111 OF .]
The Commonwealth
of Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine
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An Act relative to HIV and AIDS testing.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as
follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 13D of Chapt
er 265, as appearing in the 2006
Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the first paragraph the following paragraph:—Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, where a public employee is a police officer, firefighter or other public safety employee engaged in the perfor
mance of his duties and the assault and battery results in an exchange of blood, saliva or other bodily fluids, the defendant shall submit to a test for the presence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
SEC
TION 2. Section 13I of Chapt
er 265, as appearing in the 2006
Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the first paragraph the following paragraph:—Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, where the assault and battery results in an exchan
ge of blood, saliva or other bodily fluids, the defendant shall submit to a test for the presence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
SECTION 3. Section 70F of Chapt
er 111, as appearing in the 2006
Officia
l Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the fourth paragraph the following paragraph:—Notwithstanding any of the above, whenever a doctor, nurse, hospital employee or other health care worker is engaged in attending to a patient and is inadvertentl
y injected by a hypodermic needle used on said patient, a test for the presence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) shall be administered to said patient.
