SCS/SB 93 - This act creates the crime of endangering a corrections employee, visitor to a correctional facility, or other offender or prisoner if an offender or prisoner causes such person to come into contact with bodily fluids. This offense is a Class D felony. This act makes it a Class C felony if a person endangers a corrections employee, visitor to a correctional facility, or other offender by knowingly putting the employee in danger of contracting HIV, Hepatitis B, or Hepatitis C.
If a person causes an employee, visitor, or other offender to come in contact with an unidentified substance, it is a class A misdemeanor.
This act also removes inmates and correctional facilities from Section 565.092.
This act is similar to SB 986 (2004) and certain provisions of CCS/SS/SCS/HCS/HB 353 (2005) and HB 700 (2005).
SUSAN HENDERSON