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2000 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 18.2-67.4 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 18.2-67.4. Sexual battery.
A. An accused shall be guilty of sexual battery if he or she sexually abuses, as defined in § 18.2-67.10, (i) the complaining witness against the will of the complaining witness, by force, threat, intimidation or ruse, or through the use of the complaining witness's mental incapacity or physical helplessness, or (ii) an inmate who has been committed to jail or convicted and sentenced to confinement in a state or local correctional facility or regional jail, and the accused is an employee or contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, the state or local correctional facility or regional jail; is in a position of authority over the inmate; and knows that the inmate is under the jurisdiction of the state or local correctional facility or regional jail, or (iii) a probationer, parolee, or a pretrial or posttrial offender under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections, a local community corrections program, a pretrial program, a local or regional jail for the purposes of imprisonment, a work program or any other parole/probationary or pretrial program and the accused is an employee or contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, the Department of Corrections, a local community corrections program, a pretrial program or a local or regional jail; is in a position of authority over an offender; and knows that the offender is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections, a local community corrections program, a pretrial program or a local or regional jail.
B. Sexual battery is a Class 1 misdemeanor.