Carnal knowledge and sexual battery; persons detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer; confidential informants, pretrial defendants or posttrial offenders; penalty. Provides that an accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a person serving as a confidential informant, defined in the bill, if he (i) is a law-enforcement officer; (ii) knows that such person is serving as a confidential informant for the law-enforcement agency where such officer is employed; and (iii) carnally knows, without use of force, threat, or intimidation, such confidential informant while such person is serving as a confidential informant or is expected to testify in a criminal case for which the confidential informant assisted the law-enforcement agency with its investigation. The bill provides that such offense is a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides that an accused is guilty of sexual battery if he sexually abuses (a) a person detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer and the accused is a law-enforcement officer, (b) a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender and the accused is an owner or employee of the bail company that posted the pretrial defendant's or posttrial offender's bond, or (c) a person serving as a confidential informant and the accused is a law-enforcement officer. Current law provides that sexual battery is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 6 felony for a third or subsequent offense.

Statutes affected:
Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104794D: 18.2-64.2, 18.2-67.4
Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106165D-S1: 18.2-64.2, 18.2-67.4
House: Committee substitute printed 24108136D-H1: 18.2-64.2, 18.2-67.4
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB394ER): 18.2-64.2, 18.2-67.4
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592): 18.2-64.2, 18.2-67.4