Report of Congress: Adequacy of Penalties for the Intentional Exposure of Others through Sexual Activity to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

摘要

This report to Congress is submitted by the United States Sentencing Commission, an independent agency in the judicial branch of government, in response to a directive in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, Pub. L. No. 103-322, 1089 Stat. 1796 (1994). Section 40503(c) of that Act provides: 'Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the United States Sentencing Commission shall conduct a study and prepare and submit to the committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report concerning recommendations for the revision of sentencing guidelines that relate to offenses in which an HIV infected individual engages in sexual activity if the individual knows that he or she is infected with HIV and intends, through such sexual activity, to expose another to HIV.'