blog.aids.gov − Iowa Modernizes HIV Criminalization Law

blog.aids.gov − Iowa Modernizes HIV Criminalization Law

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Iowa Modernizes HIV Criminalization Law

06/02/2014 01:10 PM EDT

On May 30, 2014, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad signed into law a bill making substantial revisions to the state’s HIV criminalization law. The new legislation rewrote state law 709c, which was originally passed in 1998 and made it a felony, punishable by up to 25 years in prison, for persons living with HIV infection (PLWH)...