Claim: California lawmakers want to repeal HIV criminalization laws.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Criminal transmission of HIV
text: 2010. On September 23, 2011, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced H.R. 3053, The Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act or the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act. The REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act calls for review of all federal and state laws, policies, and regulations regarding the criminal prosecution of individuals for HIV-related offenses. The bill died in the Subcommittee on Health, and also in 2013/2014 when introduced as HR 1843 and referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Courts have looked into the statistical probability of HIV transmission to overturn or reduce criminal sentences resulting from prosecutions.

title: Center for HIV Law and Policy
text: Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act' (H.R. 3053), also called the REPEAL Act, proposed legislation that was introduced in the U.S. Congress on September 23, 2011, by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA). It called for review of all federal and state laws, policies, and regulations regarding the criminal prosecution of individuals for HIV-related offenses. It was the first piece of federal legislation to address HIV criminalization and provided incentives for states to reconsider laws and practices that target people with HIV for consensual sexual activity and conduct that poses no risk of HIV transmission. The bill had 41 cosponsors and was referred

title: Scott Wiener
text: similar bill. The bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support, but failed in the Assembly. Wiener reintroduced the bill the following year, this time limited to six cities whose mayors have supported the idea: San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Sacramento, West Hollywood, and Long Beach. Wiener joined Assembly member Todd Gloria to author SB 239, which aims to change the laws that make it a felony to expose someone to HIV without their knowledge and consent. Wiener said that the laws unfairly single out HIV-positive people. The bill passed and was signed by Governor Jerry Brown on October 6, 2017.

title: Criminal transmission of HIV in the United States
text: DOJ released a paper called "Best Practices Guide to Reform HIV-Specific Criminal Laws to Align with Scientifically-Supported Factors", designed to guide states in updating their statutes to "reflect contemporary understanding of HIV transmission routes and associated benefits of treatment" and to establish policies that "do not place unnecessary burdens on individuals living with HIV/AIDS". REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act was the abbreviated name of the 'Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act' (H.R. 3053), also called the REPEAL Act, proposed legislation that was introduced in the U.S. Congress on September 23, 2011, by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA).

title: Criminal transmission of HIV in the United States
text: It called for review of all federal and state laws, policies, and regulations regarding the criminal prosecution of individuals for HIV-related offenses. It was the first piece of federal legislation to address HIV criminalization and provided incentives for states to reconsider laws and practices that target people with HIV for consensual sexual activity and conduct that poses no risk of HIV transmission. The bill had 41 cosponsors and was referred in September/October 2011 to three subcommittees, where it died. Barbara Lee re-introduced the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act 2013 as H.R. 1843 in May 2013 with 42 cosponsors, and it again

title: LGBT rights in California
text: in the state of California. Surgeons who transplant organs from HIV-positive donors into HIV-positive patients are also protected from liability and from being penalized by the California Medical Board. This law is also in-line with the federal "HIV Organ Policy Equity Act", which reversed the federal ban on this procedure back in 2013. From January 1, 2019, law enforcement in California will be legally required to undergo mandatory sensitivity training on LGBT issues, a first for the United States. Support for LGBT rights and same-sex marriage have evolved significantly in the past decades. The first known opinion poll surveying attitudes

title: Center for HIV Law and Policy
text: publications from the Center for HIV Law and Policy such as "When Sex is a Crime and Spit is a Dangerous Weapon," mapping HIV criminalization in the United States. In May 2014, the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School published a report co-authored by the Center for HIV Law and Policy, the Center for American Progress and Streetwise & Safe called "Roadmap for Change: Federal Policy Recommendations for Addressing the Criminalization of LGBT People and People Living with HIV." The REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act was the abbreviated name of the 'Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and

title: LGBT rights in Victoria
text: Act", a law which singled out intentional HIV transmission for harsher penalties of up to 25 years imprisonment, while the maximum penalty for manslaughter is 20 years. As a result of the reform, intentional infection of HIV is considered under existing criminal offences such as "causing serious injury". The "Crimes Amendment (Repeal of Section 19A) Act 2015" passed the Legislative Assembly on 7 May 2015 and passed, with bipartisan support, the Legislative Council on 28 May 2015, receiving royal assent on 2 June 2015, and went into effect immediately. Since 1 September 2015, an individual or an appropriate representative of

title: Prison sexuality
text: was passed in California when Governor Jerry Brown signed the Assembly Bill 966 also known as the Prisoner Protections for Family and Community Health Act to require the state to hand out condoms and make them available to inmates in 34 of its prison facilities. This bill protects the prisoner’s health as well while being cost effective. For the state, condom distribution is a low cost method to prevent the transmission of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases since individual HIV treatments are costly. As of September 12, 2016, a bill passed stating that birth control and hygiene products are allowed

title: LGBT rights in California
text: Appeals suspended the injunction on "SB 1172" and rejected the plaintiffs' claims against allowing for the ban on conversion therapy to go into effect. On June 26, 2014, the Supreme Court held a conference on whether or not to grant certiorari to "Pickup v. Brown". Certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court on June 30, 2014. California was the first state with such a law. On May 27, 2016, California Governor Jerry Brown signed "Senate Bill 1408 into law", effective immediately, that had recently unanimously passed the California State Legislature. The law protects organ donation and transplantation between HIV-positive people

title: Center for HIV Law and Policy
text: in September/October 2011 to three subcommittees, where it died. Barbara Lee re-introduced the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act 2013 as H.R. 1843 in May 2013 with 42 cosponsors, and it again died in three subcommittees. Senator Chris Coons introduced the legislation as S.1790 on December 10, 2013, and it did not make it out of the Judiciary Committee. Center for HIV Law and Policy The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) is a national legal and policy resource and strategy center in the United States working to reduce the impact of HIV on vulnerable and marginalized communities and to secure

title: Criminal transmission of HIV in the United States
text: criminalize behavior by people living with HIV." The ACLU has listed states, their statutes, relevant behaviors (spitting, blood donation etc.), and classification of crime as felony or misdemeanor and punishment in a table. The following states have laws that prosecute individuals for criminal exposure of HIV: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. Minnesota has a statute that criminalizes the transmission of certain communicable

title: 1986 California Proposition 64
text: that the measures would merely return AIDS to the list of communicable diseases under the public health laws. The ballot argument in favor of the proposition were pathologist John Grauerholz, psychiatrist Nancy T. Mullan, and former Centers for Disease Control advisor Gus S. Sermos. Congressman William E. Dannemeyer was also a proponent. Opponents characterized it as an effort to force HIV-positive individuals out of their jobs and into quarantine. Said Helen Miramontes, R.N., president of the California Nurses Association: Health professionals believe that Proposition 64 would seriously hurt their ability to treat and find a cure for AIDS. Current medical

title: Consenting Adult Sex Bill
text: than one year." Consenting Adult Sex Bill The Consenting Adult Sex Bill (Assembly Bill 489) is a consenting adult law, passed in California in 1975 and effective in January 1976, that repealed the sodomy law in California so that it applied only in criminal situations and made gay sex legal for the first time. George Moscone, an early proponent of gay rights, in conjunction with his friend and ally in the Assembly, Willie Brown, managed to get the bill passed, 21-20, repealing the existing Californian laws against sodomy. The amendment was signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown. The

title: HIV/AIDS in the United States
text: President George W. Bush signed that lifted the ban in statutory law. However, the United States Department of Health and Human Services still held the ban in administrative (written regulation) law. New impetus was added to repeal efforts when Paul Thorn, a UK tuberculosis expert who was invited to speak at the 2009 Pacific Health Summit in Seattle, was denied a visa due to his HIV positive status. A letter written by Mr. Thorn, and read in his place at the Summit, was attained by Congressman Jim McDermott, who advocated the issue to the Obama administration's Health Secretary. On October

title: LGBT rights in California
text: has worked with the aforementioned groups. However, the effort failed after it fell "about 17,000 signatures short of the 504,760 valid names needed to go before voters." In August 2012, the California State Assembly approved "SB 1172" prohibiting mental health providers from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts (such as conversion therapy) with LGBT minors. It was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on September 29, 2012. The law would have gone into effect January 1, 2013, but was being challenged in "Pickup v. Brown" and "Welch v. Brown". On August 29, 2013, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of

title: Measure B
text: had yet to open a clinic in Compton which has one of the highest HIV infection rates in Los Angeles County. In 2016, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation backed Proposition 60, which would have enacted a condom mandate similar to Measure B statewide. Proposition 60 was defeated at the polls. In January 2013, Universal City-based Vivid Entertainment filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County health department saying that the measure violated actors' rights to free speech and expression. In August 2013, U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson delivered a mixed ruling to the adult film industry saying that while making actors

title: Consenting Adult Sex Bill
text: Consenting Adult Sex Bill The Consenting Adult Sex Bill (Assembly Bill 489) is a consenting adult law, passed in California in 1975 and effective in January 1976, that repealed the sodomy law in California so that it applied only in criminal situations and made gay sex legal for the first time. George Moscone, an early proponent of gay rights, in conjunction with his friend and ally in the Assembly, Willie Brown, managed to get the bill passed, 21-20, repealing the existing Californian laws against sodomy. The amendment was signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown. The Assembly had a

title: Mike Roos
text: California State Assembly. Some of his major legislative achievements include the Roberti-Roos Weapons Control Act of 1989 - landmark legislation banning assault weapons, the first in the history of the United States, and the Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982, which provided local government with an innovative, alternate method of financing basic and much needed public facilities. The first and strictest laws to date protecting the confidentiality of HIV test results were authored by him in 1985, as well as the law creating the pioneer Alternative Test Sites Program, which established centers where individuals could receive free, anonymous testing for

title: LGBT rights in California
text: to same-sex marriages as well as heterosexual ones. During its passage, some concern was expressed that, by repealing the same-sex marriage ban, "SB 1306" breached the separation of powers as the Legislature would be repealing an initiative passed by the voters. However, the consensus of the Assembly Judiciary Committee was that the voters are no more able to pass an unconstitutional, and subsequently enjoined, statute anymore than the Legislature can. In light of "In Re Marriage Cases" and "Hollingsworth v. Perry", which collectively forbade the enforcement of any law which would prohibit same-sex couples from marrying, it was determined by