According to Legal Insurrection, it is no longer a felony under California law to knowingly expose a person or blood supply to HIV.
Previously, it was a felony in California for a HIV-positive person to have unprotected sex without informing their partner that they’re infected, or to donate blood without informing the blood bank of their HIV status. Such crimes were punishable with up to seven years in prison.
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In March this year, Senator Scott Wiener proposed Senate Bill 239 to repeal this legislation and downgrade these crimes to misdemeanors. It was recently signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown.
Weiner released a public statement, saying that the law is a “major step toward treating HIV as a public health issue, instead of treating people living with HIV as criminals”. “HIV should be treated like all other serious infectious diseases, and that’s what SB 239 does”, he added.
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