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2012 SESSION
12105004DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 18.2-46.3 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 18.2-46.3. Recruitment of persons for criminal street gang; penalty.
A. Any person who solicits, invites, recruits, encourages or
otherwise causes or attempts to cause another to actively participate in or
become a member of what he knows to be a criminal street gang is guilty of a
Class 1 misdemeanor 6 felony. Any person age 18 years or older
who solicits, invites, recruits, encourages or otherwise causes or attempts to
cause a juvenile to actively participate in or become a member of what he knows
to be a criminal street gang is guilty of a Class 6 5 felony.
B. Any person who, in order to encourage an individual (a) to join a criminal street gang, (b) to remain as a participant in or a member of a criminal street gang, or (c) to submit to a demand made by a criminal street gang to commit a felony violation of this title, (i) uses force against the individual or a member of his family or household or (ii) threatens force against the individual or a member of his family or household, which threat would place any person in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily injury, is guilty of a Class 6 felony. The definition of "family or household member" set forth in § 16.1-228 applies to this section.
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 is $249,045 for periods of imprisonment in state adult correctional facilities and cannot be determined for periods of commitment to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.