The General Assembly approved legislation modernizing Virginia’s current HIV laws. It lifts the felony criminal ban on blood, tissue or organ donation by people with HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, makes HIV-testing for people convicted of certain crimes optional rather than mandatory, and strikes down a statute making failure to disclose HIV-positive status before sex a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill now heads to Gov. Ralph Northam who has until March 31 to sign the measure into law.