GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 425

Short Title:  Assault With Bodily Fluids/AB.  	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Kiser; Barbee, Carpenter, Gulley, Hall, Hardy, Justus, Rayfield, Sexton, Shubert, Smith, Starnes, Thompson, Weatherly, and G. Wilson.

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Referred to:  Judiciary II.

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March 6, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF ASSAULT WITH BODILY FLUIDS OR WASTES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Article 8 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 14-34.8.  Assault with bodily fluids or wastes.
Unless a person's conduct is covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, a person who commits an assault with bodily fluids or bodily wastes is guilty of a Class I felony."
Section 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1997, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.