NEW HIV LAWS EFFECTIVE IN 2018 …
California legislators have passed a law to diminish the punishment for the individuals who purposely or deliberately open others to HIV without their insight, moving back a law that for the most part influenced sex workers. Also, the act of purposely donating HIV-tainted blood, which is also a lawful offense now, will be decriminalized.
The bill, SB 239, which was affirmed by the Democrat-controlled state governing body in September and marked into law by Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Friday, will bring down the charges for these demonstrations from a felony to a misdemeanor when the law becomes effective in 2018.
Supporters of the change push in California, which incorporated an expansive coalition of general public health, LGBT, civil liberties and HIV groups in the state, depicted the laws as obsolete and inadequate, indicating measurements that demonstrated that by far most of the feelings mostly by sex workers, who are required to experience testing for HIV when arrested for their crimes.
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