Amendment H-1208 to HF 177
Relating to assaults, including assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations and inmate assaults on department of corrections employees, and providing penalties
Ruled out of order · March 27, 2025
Filed March 26, 2025 in the House by
What it changes
- Page 3, after line 19 by inserting: “Sec. ___. Section 708.3A, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new subsection: NEW SUBSECTION . 4A. a. A person who is a victim of an assault under subsection 1, 2, 3, or 4 that resulted in the victim coming in contact with the blood, seminal fluid, urine, saliva, or feces of the person committing the assault, when there is reason to believe that the person committing the assault has or may have a communicable disease, may request that law enforcement make application to the court for the issuance of a search warrant, in accordance with chapter 808, for the purpose of requiring the person committing the assault to submit to testing for communicable diseases. b. The medical professional conducting testing of the person committing the assault for communicable diseases shall, upon receipt of the test results, without delay, contact the victim of the assault with the test results.”
- By renumbering as necessary.