HB 1429 Stop AIDS in Prison Act of 2009

About HB-1429

Stop AIDS in Prison Act of 2009 - Directs the Bureau of Prisons to develop, and draft regulations to implement, a comprehensive policy to provide HIV testing, treatment, and prevention for inmates in federal prisons and upon reentry into the community. Requires such policy to provide for:

• (1) testing of inmates upon intake and counseling;
• (2) pre-test and post-test counseling;
• (3) improvement of HIV/AIDS awareness and inmate education;
• (4) HIV testing of inmates annually or upon exposure to HIV;
• (5) HIV testing of pregnant inmates;
• (6) comprehensive medical treatment of inmates who test positive and confidential counseling on managing their medical condition and preventing HIV transmission to other persons;
• (7) protection of inmate confidentiality;
• (8) testing, counseling, and referral of inmates to health care and social service agencies prior to reentry into the community;
• (9) the right of inmates to refuse routine testing; (10) excluding as "routine" the testing of an inmake who may have transmitted HIV to any U.S. officer or employee or to any person lawfully present but not incarcerated in a correctional facility; and (11) timely notification to inmates of test results.Amends the federal criminal code to:
• (1) require HIV testing for all inmates upon intake regardless of length of sentence or risk factors;
• (2) allow inmates to decline testing prior to release from incarceration;
• (3) make HIV test results inadmissible in civil and criminal proceedings; and
• (4) make HIV testing part of the routine health screening conducted at inmate intake

Directs the Bureau of Prisons to report to Congress:

• (1) within one year on Bureau policies and procedures to provide testing, treatment, and prevention education programs for hepatitis and other diseases transmitted through sexual activity and intravenous drug use; and
• (2) annually on the incidence among inmates of diseases transmitted through sexual activity and intravenous drug use, including specific information on HIV/AIDS.Authorizes appropriations.