591 
(J) OTHER ACTIONS TAKEN.—Whether the 
correctional facility has taken any other action, 
in conjunction with community organizations or 
otherwise, to reduce the prevalence and spread 
of STIs in that facility. 
(2) PRIVACY.—In conducting the survey, the 
Attorney General shall not request or retain the 
identity of any person who has sought or been of-
fered counseling, treatment, testing, or prevention 
education information regarding an STI (including 
information about sexual barrier protection devices), 
or who has tested positive for an STI. 
(3) REPORT.—The Attorney General shall 
transmit to Congress and make publicly available 
the results of the survey required under paragraph 
(1), both for the Nation as a whole and 
disaggregated as to each State and each correctional 
facility. To the maximum extent possible, the Attor-
ney General shall issue the first report no later than 
1 year after the date of enactment of this Act and 
shall issue reports annually thereafter for 5 years. 
(d) STRATEGY.— 
(1) DIRECTIVE TO ATTORNEY GENERAL.—The 
Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services, State officials, and 
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community organizations, shall develop and imple-
ment a 5-year strategy to reduce the prevalence and 
spread of STIs in Federal and State correctional fa-
cilities. To the maximum extent possible, the strat-
egy shall be developed, transmitted to Congress, and 
made publicly available no later than 180 days after 
the transmission of the first report required under 
subsection (c)(3). 
(2) CONTENTS
OF
STRATEGY.—The strategy 
shall include the following: 
(A) PREVENTION EDUCATION.—A plan for 
improving prevention education, information, 
and training offered to incarcerated persons 
and correctional facility staff, including infor-
mation and training on sexual violence and the 
spread of STIs, and comprehensive sexuality 
education. 
(B) SEXUAL BARRIER PROTECTION DEVICE 
ACCESS.—A plan for expanding access to sexual 
barrier protection devices in correctional facili-
ties. 
(C) SEXUAL
VIOLENCE
REDUCTION.—A 
plan for reducing the incidence of sexual vio-
lence among incarcerated persons and correc-
tional facility staff, developed in consultation 
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with the National Prison Rape Elimination 
Commission. 
(D) COUNSELING AND SUPPORTIVE SERV-
ICES.—A plan for expanding access to coun-
seling and supportive services related to STIs in 
correctional facilities. 
(E) TESTING.—A plan for testing incarcer-
ated persons for STIs during intake, during 
regular health exams, and prior to release, and 
that— 
(i) is conducted in accordance with 
guidelines established by the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention; 
(ii) includes pretest counseling; 
(iii) requires that incarcerated persons 
are notified of their option to decline test-
ing at any time; 
(iv) requires that incarcerated persons 
are confidentially notified of their test re-
sults in a timely manner; and 
(v) ensures that incarcerated persons 
testing positive for STIs receive post-test 
counseling, care, treatment, and supportive 
services. 
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(F) TREATMENT.—A plan for ensuring 
that correctional facilities have the necessary 
medicine and equipment to treat and monitor 
STIs and for ensuring that incarcerated per-
sons living with or testing positive for STIs re-
ceive and have access to care and treatment 
services. 
(G) 
STRATEGIES
FOR
DEMOGRAPHIC 
GROUPS.—A plan for developing and imple-
menting culturally appropriate, sensitive, and 
specific strategies to reduce the spread of STIs 
among demographic groups heavily impacted by 
STIs. 
(H) LINKAGES
WITH
COMMUNITIES
AND 
FACILITIES.—A plan for establishing and 
strengthening linkages to local communities and 
health facilities that— 
(i) provide counseling, testing, care, 
and treatment services; 
(ii) may receive persons recently re-
leased from incarceration who are living 
with STIs; and 
(iii) accept payment through the State 
Medicaid program. 
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(I) ENROLLMENT
IN
STATE
MEDICAID 
PROGRAMS.—Plans to ensure that incarcerated 
persons who were— 
(i) enrolled in their State Medicaid 
program prior to incarceration in a correc-
tional facility are automatically re-enrolled 
in such program upon their release; and 
(ii) not enrolled in their State Med-
icaid program prior to incarceration, but 
who are diagnosed with the human im-
munodeficiency virus while incarcerated in 
a correctional facility, are automatically 
enrolled in such program upon their re-
lease. 
(J) OTHER PLANS.—Any other plans de-
veloped by the Attorney General for reducing 
the spread of STIs or improving the quality of 
health care in correctional facilities. 
(K) MONITORING SYSTEM.—A monitoring 
system that establishes performance goals re-
lated to reducing the prevalence and spread of 
STIs in correctional facilities and which, where 
feasible, expresses such goals in quantifiable 
form. 
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(L) MONITORING
SYSTEM
PERFORMANCE 
INDICATORS.—Performance 
indicators 
that 
measure or assess the achievement of the per-
formance goals described in subparagraph (K). 
(M) COST ESTIMATE.—A detailed estimate 
of the funding necessary to implement the 
strategy at the Federal and State levels for all 
5 years, including the amount of funds required 
by community organizations to implement the 
parts of the strategy in which they take part. 
(3) REPORT.—The Attorney General shall 
transmit to Congress and make publicly available an 
annual progress report regarding the implementation 
and effectiveness of the strategy described in para-
graph (1). The progress report shall include an eval-
uation of the implementation of the strategy using 
the monitoring system and performance indicators 
provided for in subparagraphs (K) and (L) of para-
graph (2). 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as may be necessary to 
carry out this section for each of fiscal years 2017 
through 2021. 
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