SB442

Kansas SB442 increases penalties for exposing others to communicable diseases and modifies the crime to include sexual acts.

Kansas SB442 amends the state's criminal code to increase penalties for knowingly exposing another person to a life-threatening communicable disease. The bill modifies the crime to include otherwise lawful or unlawful sexual intercourse or sodomy. It also specifies that sharing hypodermic needles or syringes with the intent to expose another to a communicable disease is now a felony. The act repeals the existing section and takes effect upon publication in the statute book.