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2006 SESSION
061334232Be 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 is 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, [ surprise,
] 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-based probation program, a pretrial services program, a local
or regional jail for the purposes of imprisonment, a work program or any other
parole/probationary or pretrial services program and the accused is an employee
or contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, the Department of Corrections,
a local community-based probation program, a pretrial services 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-based probation program, a pretrial services
program or a local or regional jail.
B. Sexual battery is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
[ 2. That the provisions of this act may result in a
net increase in periods of imprisonment or commitment. Pursuant to §
30-19.1:4, the estimated amount of the necessary appropriation cannot be
determined for periods of imprisonment in state adult correctional facilities
and is $0 for periods of commitment to the custody of the Department of Juvenile
Justice. ]