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1994 SESSION
LD1659180Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 8.01-400 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 8.01-400. Communications between ministers of religion and persons they counsel or advise.
No regular minister, priest, rabbi, pastoral counselor, or
accredited licensed practitioner over the age of eighteen years,
of any religious organization or denomination usually referred to as a
church, shall be required in giving to give testimony
as a witness or to relinquish notes, records or any written
documentation in any civil action to which would
disclose any information communicated to him in a confidential manner,
properly entrusted to him in his professional capacity and necessary to
enable him to discharge the functions of his office according to the usual
course of his practice or discipline, wherein such person so communicating
such information about himself or another is seeking spiritual counsel and
advice relative to and growing out of the information so imparted.