Bill Text: VA HB948 | 2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; crimes included.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-02-28 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0038) [HB948 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2012-HB948-Chaptered.html
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That § 19.2-368.2 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows: §19.2-368.2. Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter: "Claimant" means the person filing a claim pursuant to this chapter. "Commission" means the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. "Crime" means an act committed by any person in the Commonwealth of Virginia which would constitute a crime as defined by the Code of Virginia or at common law. However, no act involving the operation of a motor vehicle which results in injury shall constitute a crime for the purpose of this chapter unless the injuries (i) were intentionally inflicted through the use of such vehicle or (ii) resulted from a violation of §18.2-51.4 or 18.2-266 or from a felony violation of §46.2-894. "Family," when used with reference to a person, means (i) any person related to such person within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, (ii) any person residing in the same household with such person, or (iii) a spouse. "Sexual abuse" means sexual abuse as defined in subdivision 6 of §18.2-67.10 and acts constituting rape, sodomy, object sexual penetration or sexual battery as defined in Article 7 (§18.2-61 et seq.) of Chapter 4 of Title 18.2. "Victim" means a person who suffers personal physical injury or death as a direct result of a crime including a person who is injured or killed as a result of foreign terrorism or who suffers personal emotional injury as a direct result of being the subject of a violent felony offense as defined in subsection C of §17.1-805, or stalking as described in §18.2-60.3, or attempted robbery or abduction. |
