PRINTER'S NO. 3881
No. 2804 Session of 1996
INTRODUCED BY SERAFINI, WOGAN, COY, LYNCH, STABACK, STISH, FAJT,
OLASZ, COLAFELLA, YOUNGBLOOD, TRELLO, DeLUCA, LEH, MERRY AND
FLICK, JUNE 27, 1996
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
JUNE 27, 1996
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 23, 1956 (1955 P.L.1510, No.500),
2 entitled, as amended, "An act providing for the prevention
3 and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases
4 including venereal diseases, fixing responsibility for
5 disease prevention and control, requiring reports of
6 diseases, and authorizing treatment of venereal diseases, and
7 providing for premarital and prenatal blood tests; amending,
8 revising and consolidating the laws relating thereto; and
9 repealing certain acts," further defining "Communicable
10 Disease" to include HIV.
11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12 hereby enacts as follows:
13 Section 1. Section 2(c) of the act of April 23, 1956 (1955
14 P.L.1510, No.500), known as the Disease Prevention and Control
15 Law of 1955, is amended to read:
16 Section 2. Definitions.--
17 The following terms, whenever used in this act, have the
18 meanings indicated in this section, except where the context
19 indicates a clearly different meaning:
20 * * *
21 (c) Communicable Disease. An illness due to an infectious
1 agent or its toxic products which is transmitted, directly or
2 indirectly, to a well person from an infected person, animal or
3 arthropod, or through the agency of an intermediate host, vector
4 of the inanimate environment. The term includes the presence of
5 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) whether or not the person is
6 exhibiting any of the symptoms of acquired immune deficiency
7 syndrome (AIDS).
8 * * *
9 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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