- Introduced -

SB 986 - This act creates the crime of "endangering a corrections employee" if an offender or prisoner causes such an employee to come into contact with bodily fluids. This offense is a Class D felony.

This act makes it a Class B felony if a person endangers a corrections employee by knowingly putting the employee in danger of contracting HIV, Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C.

If a person causes an employee to come in contact with an unidentified substance, it is a Class A misdemeanor.

This act also removes inmates and correctional facilities from the provisions of Section 565.092, RSMo.

This act is similar to SB 418 (2003).

SUSAN HENDERSON