Bill Text: VA HB2294 | 2013 | Regular Session | Chaptered


Bill Title: Inmates; carnal knowledge, expansion to include defendants on bond, penalty is Class 1 misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-03-20 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0602) [HB2294 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2013-HB2294-Chaptered.html

CHAPTER 602
An Act to amend and reenact §18.2-64.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to carnal knowledge of an inmate; expansion to include defendants on bond.
[H 2294]
Approved March 20, 2013

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §18.2-64.2 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§18.2-64.2. Carnal knowledge of an inmate, parolee, probationer, detainee, or pretrial or posttrial offender; penalty.

An accused shall be is guilty of carnal knowledge of an inmate, parolee, probationer, detainee, or pretrial defendant or posttrial offender if he or she is an employee or contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, a state or local correctional facility or regional jail, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, a secure facility or detention home, as defined in §16.1-228, a state or local court services unit, as defined in §16.1-235, a local community-based probation services agency or a pretrial services agency; is in a position of authority over the inmate, probationer, parolee, detainee, or a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender; knows that the inmate, probationer, parolee, detainee, or pretrial defendant or posttrial offender is under the jurisdiction of the state or local correctional facility, a regional jail, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, a secure facility or detention home, as defined in §16.1-228, a state or local court services unit, as defined in §16.1-235, a local community-based probation services agency, or a pretrial services agency; and carnally knows, without the use of force, threat or intimidation (i) an inmate who has been committed to jail or convicted and sentenced to confinement in a state or local correctional facility or regional jail or (ii) a probationer, parolee, detainee, or a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, a secure facility or detention home, as defined in §16.1-228, a state or local court services unit, as defined in §16.1-235, a local community-based probation services agency, a pretrial services agency, a local or regional jail for the purposes of imprisonment, a work program or any other parole/probationary or pretrial services program or agency. Such offense is a Class 6 felony.

An accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender if he (a) is an owner or employee of the bail bond company that posted the pretrial defendant's or posttrial offender's bond, (b) has the authority to revoke the pretrial defendant's or posttrial offender's bond, and (c) carnally knows, without use of force, threat, or intimidation, a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender. Such offense is a Class 1 misdemeanor.

For the purposes of this section, "carnal knowledge" includes the acts of sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anallingus, anal intercourse and animate or inanimate object sexual penetration.

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