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1994 SESSION


CHAPTER 468
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 18.2-67.5:1, relating to penalty upon conviction of certain third offenses; sexual abuse.
[H 672]
Approved April 8, 1994

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 18.2-67.5:1 as follows:

§ 18.2-67.5:1. Punishment upon conviction of third misdemeanor offense.

When a person is convicted of sexual battery in violation of § 18.2-67.4, attempted sexual battery in violation of subsection C of § 18.2-67.5, a violation of § 18.2-371 involving consensual intercourse with a child, or indecent exposure of himself or procuring another to expose himself in violation of § 18.2-387 and it is alleged in the warrant, information or indictment on which the person is convicted and found by the court or jury trying the case, that the person has previously been convicted within the ten-year period immediately preceding the offense charged of two or more of the offenses specified in this section, each such offense occurring on a different date, he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.