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House File 542

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  1  1                                           HOUSE FILE 542
  1  2 
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 TO PROHIBIT ACTS BY INMATES OF JAILS OR CORRECTIONAL INSTITU-
  1  5    TIONS WHICH RESULT IN CONTACT WITH CERTAIN BODILY FLUIDS OR
  1  6    SECRETIONS OR THE CASTING OR EXPELLING OF CERTAIN BODILY
  1  7    FLUIDS OR SECRETIONS ON JAIL AND CORRECTIONAL EMPLOYEES, AND
  1  8    PROVIDING PENALTIES.
  1  9 
  1 10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 
  1 11 
  1 12    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  708.3B  INMATE ASSAULTS – BODILY
  1 13 FLUIDS OR SECRETIONS.
  1 14    A person who, while confined in a jail or in an institution
  1 15 or facility under the control of the department of
  1 16 corrections, commits any of the following acts commits a class
  1 17 "D" felony:
  1 18    1.  An assault, as defined under section 708.1, upon an
  1 19 employee of the jail or institution or facility under the
  1 20 control of the department of corrections, which results in the
  1 21 employee's contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, or feces.
  1 22    2.  An act which is intended to cause pain or injury or be
  1 23 insulting or offensive and which results in blood, seminal
  1 24 fluid, urine, or feces being cast or expelled upon an employee
  1 25 of the jail or institution or facility under the control of
  1 26 the department of corrections.  
  1 27 
  1 28 
  1 29                                                             
  1 30                               RON J. CORBETT
  1 31                               Speaker of the House
  1 32 
  1 33 
  1 34                                                             
  1 35                               MARY E. KRAMER
  2  1                               President of the Senate
  2  2 
  2  3    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
  2  4 is known as House File 542, Seventy-seventh General Assembly.
  2  5 
  2  6 
  2  7                                                             
  2  8                               ELIZABETH ISAACSON
  2  9                               Chief Clerk of the House
  2 10 Approved                , 1997
  2 11 
  2 12 
  2 13                         
  2 14 TERRY E. BRANSTAD
  2 15 Governor
     

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