This act provides that no individual, owner of premises, or any other entity shall be subject to criminal or civil liability in any action alleging exposure to a contagious disease on the premises under the control of the individual, owner, or entity unless:
(1) The individual, owner, or entity knowingly and purposefully exposed an individual to a contagious disease;
(2) Such exposure caused suffering from a clinical disease; and
(3) The exposed individual did not voluntarily assume the risk of exposure.
The term "contagious disease" is defined in the act as a acute infectious respiratory illness that is transmitted by airborne particles.
This act contains an emergency clause.
This act is identical to SCS/HCS/HB 1358 and similar to a provision in HCS/SS/SCS/SB 27 (2021), in HCS/SCS/SB 119 (2021), and in perfected HCS/HB 682 (2021).
MARY GRACE BRUNTRAGER
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