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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?001+ful+CHAP0831\">831<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2004, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?041+ful+CHAP0449\">449<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":68420,"section_number":"16.1-69.55","catch_line":"Retention of case records; limitations on enforcement of judgments; extensions","order_by":null,"url":"\/16.1-69.55\/"},{"id":80246,"section_number":"17.1-805","catch_line":"Adoption of initial discretionary sentencing guideline midpoints","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-805\/"},{"id":75041,"section_number":"19.2-299","catch_line":"Investigations and reports by probation officers in certain cases","order_by":null,"url":"\/19.2-299\/"},{"id":72639,"section_number":"19.2-310.2","catch_line":"Blood, saliva, or tissue sample required for DNA analysis upon conviction of certain crimes; fee","order_by":null,"url":"\/19.2-310.2\/"},{"id":61280,"section_number":"19.2-392.02","catch_line":"National criminal background checks by businesses and organizations regarding employees or volunteers providing care to children or the elderly or disabled","order_by":null,"url":"\/19.2-392.02\/"},{"id":71434,"section_number":"19.2-8","catch_line":"Limitation of prosecutions","order_by":null,"url":"\/19.2-8\/"},{"id":58640,"section_number":"53.1-40.02","catch_line":"Conditional release of terminally ill prisoners","order_by":null,"url":"\/53.1-40.02\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":77418,"section_number":"18.2-30","catch_line":"Murder and manslaughter declared felonies","order_by":null,"url":"\/18.2-30\/"}],"permalink":{"id":165199,"object_type":"law","relational_id":64369,"identifier":"18.2-67.4:1","token":"18.2\/4\/7\/18.2-67.4_1","url":"\/18.2-67.4_1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/18.2-67.4_1\/","token":"18.2\/4\/7\/18.2-67.4_1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Infected sexual battery; penalty","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 18.2-67.4:1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">A.<\/span> Any person who is diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection and engages in sexual behavior that poses a substantial risk of transmission to another person with the <span class=\"dictionary\">intent<\/span> to transmit the infection to that person and transmits such infection to that person is guilty of a Class 6 <span class=\"dictionary\">felony<\/span>. <a id=\"paragraph-234244\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/18.2-67.4_1\/#A\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"B\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">B.<\/span> Nothing in this section shall prevent the <span class=\"dictionary\">prosecution<\/span> of any other <span class=\"dictionary\">crime<\/span> against persons under Chapter 4 (&#xA7; <a class=\"law\" title=\"Murder and manslaughter declared felonies\" href=\"\/18.2-30\/\">18.2-30<\/a> et seq.). <a id=\"paragraph-234245\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/18.2-67.4_1\/#B\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nINFECTED SEXUAL BATTERY; PENALTY (\u00a7 18.2-67.4:1)\n\nA. Any person who is diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection and engages\nin sexual behavior that poses a substantial risk of transmission to another\nperson with the intent to transmit the infection to that person and transmits\nsuch infection to that person is guilty of a Class 6 felony.\n\nB. Nothing in this section shall prevent the prosecution of any other crime\nagainst persons under Chapter 4 (&#xA7; 18.2-30 et seq.).\n\nHISTORY: 2000, c. 831; 2004, c. 449; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 465.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}