REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2015
Latest action · Aug 13, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 24, 2015
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act of 2015 or the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2015
Expresses the sense of Congress that federal and state laws, policies, and regulations regarding people living with HIV/AIDS should: (1) not place unique or additional burdens on such individuals solely as a result of their HIV status; and (2) demonstrate a public health-oriented, evidence-based, medically accurate, and contemporary understanding of HIV transmission, health implications, treatment, and the impact of punitive HIV-specific laws, policies, regulations, and judicial precedents and decisions on public health and on affected people, families, and communities.
Directs: (1) the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Defense (DOD) to initiate a national review of federal (including military) and state laws, policies, regulations, and judicial precedents and decisions regarding criminal and related civil commitment cases involving people living with HIV/AIDS; and (2) DOJ to transmit to Congress and make publicly available the results of such review with related recommendations.
Requires DOJ and HHS to: (1) develop and publicly release guidance and best practice recommendations for states, and (2) establish an integrated monitoring and evaluation system to measure state progress.
Directs DOJ, HHS, and DOD to transmit to the President and Congress any proposals necessary to implement adjustments to federal laws, policies, or regulations.
Prohibits this Act from being construed to discourage the prosecution of individuals who intentionally transmit or attempt to transmit HIV to another individual.
Cosponsors 20
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 13, 2015 to Jun 21, 2016.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-FL | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | Apr 13, 2015 | |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Apr 13, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Apr 15, 2015 | |
| D-IL | Robin L. Kelly | Jun 2, 2015 | |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Sep 10, 2015 | |
| D-VA | Donald S. Beyer, Jr. | Oct 7, 2015 | |
| D-MN | Keith Ellison | Oct 7, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Jackie Speier | Dec 3, 2015 | |
| D-CT | Elizabeth H. Esty | Dec 8, 2015 | |
| D-IL | Mike Quigley | Feb 1, 2016 | |
| D-FL | Alan Grayson | Mar 1, 2016 | |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | Mar 14, 2016 | |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Mar 16, 2016 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Mar 16, 2016 | |
| D-IL | Bill Foster | Apr 14, 2016 | |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Apr 19, 2016 | |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | Apr 26, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Scott H. Peters | May 13, 2016 | |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Jun 3, 2016 | |
| D-LA | Cedric L. Richmond | Jun 21, 2016 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Mar 24, 2015 |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Mar 24, 2015 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Mar 27, 2015 | |
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred Mar 24, 2015 |
| Military Personnel Subcommittee | Referred Aug 13, 2015 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 13, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
- Mar 27, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 24, 2015Introduced in House
- Mar 24, 2015Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 49, March 24, 2015, page H1901.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2336 | REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2015 | Related bill | Dec 1, 2015 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To modernize laws, and eliminate discrimination, with respect to people living with HIV/AIDS, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2015
- Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act of 2015
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Congressional oversight
- Correctional facilities and imprisonment
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Criminal procedure and sentencing
- Department of Defense
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Justice
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Government studies and investigations
- HIV/AIDS
- Intergovernmental relations
- Judicial procedure and administration
- Military law
- State and local government operations
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 24, 2015Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
