Year: 2017
Resolution Number: 85
Action Taken: Approved as Amended
Status: Complete
Author(s): Michael Chavarria, Daniel Ferman, Joshua Vandeburgh, and Grace Walter
Sponsor: John Winterholler
On behalf of: Medical Student Section
Committee: D (Public Health)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS endorses legislation that modernizes Michigan's HIV criminal law to incorporate three guiding principles: 1) HIV criminal law must be based on criminal intent to infect and conduct likely to transmit; 2) HIV criminal law must have punishment that is proportionate to harm; and 3) HIV criminal law must not create new crimes or increased penalties for any disease and must exclude diseases that are airborne/casually transmitted.
RESOLVED: That MSMS endorses legislation that modernizes Michigan's HIV criminal law to incorporate three guiding principles: 1) HIV criminal law must be based on criminal intent to infect and conduct likely to transmit; 2) HIV criminal law must have punishment that is proportionate to harm; and 3) HIV criminal law must not create new crimes or increased penalties for any disease and must exclude diseases that are airborne/casually transmitted.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Modernization of Michigan™s HIV Criminal Law
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