SEARCH SITE
VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL
- Code of Virginia
- Virginia Administrative Code
- Constitution of Virginia
- Charters
- Authorities
- Compacts
- Uncodified Acts
- RIS Users (account required)
SEARCHABLE DATABASES
- Bills & Resolutions
session legislation - Bill Summaries
session summaries - Reports to the General Assembly
House and Senate documents - Legislative Liaisons
State agency contacts
ACROSS SESSIONS
- Subject Index: Since 1995
- Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
- Summaries: Since 1994
Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.
2007 SESSION
078933376Be 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 is guilty of sexual battery if he 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, (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.