Senator, medical society disagree over AIDS tests
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A state senator said yesterday that Kansas should test to determine if certain people had AIDS to protect governmental units from financial liability, but a spokesman for the state medical society said such testing wouldn't accomplish anything.
"It can have significant fiscal impact on state and local governments," State Sen. Jack Steineger, D-Kansas City, said of the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a fatal disease for which no preventive vaccine, cure or treatment exists.
Steinger explained to the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee a bill he introduced requiring mandatory testing of couples applying for marriage licenses, blood and tissue in blood, sperm and organ banks, persons held more than 72 hours in public institutions such as jails and hospitals, and those convicted of sex crimes.
His measure also would make it a Class D felony, punishable by a prison term of up to 10 years, to knowingly infect another with AIDS and would require reporting the names of those who have AIDS to the state Department of Health and Environment so it could trace sexual contacts.
Steineger said the issue of confidentiality paled in comparison to the need to protect the public from the spread of AIDS and said the cost of his proposed testing program would be "miniscule compared to two or
three lawsuits brought by people infected in a holding facility."
"We shouldn't be like Nero and fiddle all around this problem."
Although Steineger touted his bill as necessary to help curb the spread of AIDS and protect taxpayers from rising costs of health care for victims and lawsuits by people infected in public facilities, others who testified either argued against the value of mandatory testing or questioned specific requirements of the bill.
Don Hatton, a Lawrence internist who is president of the Kansas Medical Society and who served on a state AIDS Task Force last year, said the Legislature could address some topics to try to meet the AIDS epidemic but that mandatory testing was not one of them.
Sex magazine bill protested
Enforcing law with blinder racks impossible, lobbyist says
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TOPEKA — A bill that would require retailers to place sex magazines behind blinder racks would be impossible for retailers to enforce, an opponent of the bill told a Senate committee yesterday. Retailers don't know the contents of all the magazines and comic books they sell, said Richard Hayse, a lobbyist for Palmer News, a wholesale distributor of paper products.
The bill would apply to a gray area of material that is not obscure but does contain sexual references, he said, and retailers can't be expected to review every issue of every magazine they sell.
Current law prohibits the sale of obscene material to minors, but supporters of the new bill say the state also needs restrictions on material that is not obscene according to the legal definition, but is harmful to
minors.
The bill would ban stores from selling or displaying to those under age 18 material showing nudity, sexual conduct or sexual abuse. Stores would be in compliance with the bill if they placed sex magazines or other materials behind blinder racks.
However, Hayse said the bill's definition of what is harmful to minors also was confusing and inconsistent
And State Sen, Robert Frey, R-Liberal, said the definition of sado-masochism in the bill could apply to magazines showing boxing matches.
At yesterday's hearing, supporters showed senators comic books portraying sexual acts and nudity that some Kansas stores sell. Many of the supporters said they pushed for the bill after seeing children look at such comic books in neighborhood drug or convenience stores.
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