A new bill will increase penalties if someone who is sick spits on a police officer.
According to the bill introduced by Blair County Republican Lou Schmitt, anybody who knowingly has a communicable disease and spits or throws bodily fluids at a cop, could face up to seven years in prison.
The bill does copy a lot of language from a 1990s bill that made it a felony if inmates who are sick spit on others inside the prison.
The bill passed overwhelmingly in the house 146-56 last week.