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.

2008 SESSION

• | print version

SB 439 Human immunodeficiency virus, etc.; testing of persons charged with crime against women.

Introduced by: Jill Holtzman Vogel | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Testing of certain defendants for HIV or hepatitis B or C viruses.  States when in the criminal process the victim of a sexual assault may request and when the court may order a defendant to submit to tests for human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B or C viruses.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Crimes; violence against women; testing of certain persons for human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses.  Eliminates the procedure for a probable cause hearing to obtain a court order to require a defendant to undergo HIV testing when he has been charged with a defined violent offense against a child or woman and has initially refused an HIV test.