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HOUSE BILL NO. 1557
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the House Committee for Courts of Justice
on February 6, 2006)
(Patron Prior to Substitute-- Delegate Bell)
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.2-370.3, relating to employment and volunteer activity prohibitions for certain sex offenders; penalty.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 18.2-370.3 as follows:

§ 18.2-370.3. Sex offenses prohibiting certain employment or volunteer activity; penalty.

Any adult who has been convicted of an offense, committed on or after July 1, 2006, of § 18.2-61, 18.2-67.1, or 18.2-67.2 and who works or engages in any volunteer activity on property he knows or has reason to know is a public or private elementary or secondary school or child day center property is guilty of a Class 6 felony.

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.