(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a court entering a judgment of conviction or conviction of a child as delinquent for a violation of section 53a-70, 53a-70a, 53a-70b or 53a-71 or a violation of section 53-21, 53a-72a, 53a-72b or 53a-73a involving a sexual act, shall, at the request of the victim of such crime, order that the offender be tested for the presence of the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome or human immunodeficiency virus and that the results be disclosed to the victim and the offender. The test shall be performed by or at the direction of the Department of Correction or, in the case of a child convicted as delinquent, at the direction of the Court Support Services Division of the Judicial Department or the Department of Children and Families, in consultation with the Department of Public Health.

(b) The provisions of sections 19a-581 to 19a-585, inclusive, and section 19a-590, except the requirement that the subject of an HIV-related test provide informed consent prior to the performance of such test, shall apply to a test ordered under this section.

(c) For the purposes of this section and section 19a-112b, “sexual act” means contact between the penis and the vulva or the penis and the anus, where such contact involving the penis occurs upon penetration, however slight, or contact between the mouth and the penis, the mouth and the vulva or the mouth and the anus.

(May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-6, S. 24, 28; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 10-43, S. 42.)

History: May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-6 effective June 21, 1994; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 10-43 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “an adjudication of delinquency” with “conviction of a child as delinquent” and require that, in case of child convicted as delinquent, test be performed at direction of Court Support Services Division or Department of Children and Families.