HB 1969 -- Department of Mental Health Protection Measures

Sponsor:  Bivins

This bill creates the crime of endangering a Department of Mental
Health employee, a visitor or other person at a secure facility,
or another offender when a person attempts to cause or knowingly
causes these individuals to come into contact with blood, seminal
fluid, urine, feces, or saliva.  Anyone committing this crime
will be guilty of a class D felony unless the substance is
unidentified in which case it will be a class A misdemeanor.  If
the person committing the crime is knowingly infected with the
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis C, or hepatitis B
and exposes another person to the illness in the commission of
the crime, he or she will be guilty of a class C felony.

The bill also expands the list of criminal offenses that
disqualify a person from holding a direct-care position in any
facility or program operated, funded, or licensed by the
department or any other mental health facility or program in
which people are admitted voluntarily or are civilly detained.

Missouri House of Representatives
95th General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
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