US Congress House Bill 1429 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-1)
Status: Engrossed on March 18 2009 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-03-18 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Stop AIDS in Prison Act of 2009 - Directs the Bureau of Prisons to develop, and draft regulations to implement, a comprehensive policy to provide HIV testing, treatment, and prevention for inmates in federal prisons and upon reentry into the community. Requires such policy to provide for: (1) testing of inmates upon intake and counseling; (2) pre-test and post-test counseling; (3) improvement of HIV/AIDS awareness and inmate education; (4) HIV testing of inmates annually or upon exposure to HIV; (5) HIV testing of pregnant inmates; (6) comprehensive medical treatment of inmates who test positive and confidential counseling on managing their medical condition and preventing HIV transmission to other persons; (7) protection of inmate confidentiality; (8) testing, counseling, and referral of inmates to health care and social service agencies prior to reentry into the community; (9) the right of inmates to refuse routine testing; (10) excluding as "routine" the testing of an inmake who may have transmitted HIV to any U.S. officer or employee or to any person lawfully present but not incarcerated in a correctional facility; and (11) timely notification to inmates of test results.Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) require HIV testing for all inmates upon intake regardless of length of sentence or risk factors; (2) allow inmates to decline testing prior to release from incarceration; (3) make HIV test results inadmissible in civil and criminal proceedings; and (4) make HIV testing part of the routine health screening conducted at inmate intake. Directs the Bureau of Prisons to report to Congress: (1) within one year on Bureau policies and procedures to provide testing, treatment, and prevention education programs for hepatitis and other diseases transmitted through sexual activity and intravenous drug use; and (2) annually on the incidence among inmates of diseases transmitted through sexual activity and intravenous drug use, including specific information on HIV/AIDS.Authorizes appropriations.

Stop AIDS in Prison Act of 2009

Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]	Rep. Donna Christensen [D-VI]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]
Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. Barney Frank [D-MA]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D-OH]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]
Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]
Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. Lamar Smith [R-TX]	Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]	Rep. Melvin Watt [D-NC]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-03-18		Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
2009-03-17		Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2009-03-17		On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3459-3460)
2009-03-17		DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1429.
2009-03-17		Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3459-3463)
2009-03-17		Ms. Waters moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
2009-03-11		Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/1429/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr1429/BILLS-111hr1429ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr1429/BILLS-111hr1429eh.pdf