Delaware General Assembly

Senate Adult & Juvenile Corrections 3/19/02

The General Assembly has ended, the current status is the final status.

3/19/02

Blevins

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLES 10 AND 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE TESTING OF OFFENDERS FOR CERTAIN COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.

Delaware law currently permits the victims of certain sex offenses to ascertain whether their assailant is infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (H.I.V.). This Act extends this right to all crime victims when the circumstances of the crime make it possible that the victim was exposed to any disease transmittable by the defendant's blood or other bodily fluids. The Act also permits paramedics and other emergency medical service providers to avail themselves of the testing services currently available to law enforcement officers exposed to the possibility of the transmission of H.I.V., hepatitis or other diseases transmitted by bodily fluids. The Act repeals Sections 1075, 1076, and 1077 of the Delaware Code, as those sections are duplicative of Section 3910 through 3914 of Title 11.

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