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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72426</law_id><section_number>54.1-2400.8</section_number><catch_line>Immunity for reporting</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="24">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In addition to the immunity for reporting as provided by &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Hospitals, other health care institutions, home health and hospice organizations, and assisted living facilities required to report disciplinary actions against and certain disorders of health professionals; immunity from liability; failure to report" href="/54.1-2400.6/">54.1-2400.6</a> and <a class="law" title="Practitioners treating other practitioners for certain disorders to make reports; immunity from liability" href="/54.1-2400.7/">54.1-2400.7</a>, any person (i) making a report regarding the conduct or competency of a health care practitioner as required by <span class="dictionary">law</span> or regulation, (ii) making a voluntary report to the appropriate regulatory board or to the Department of Health Professions regarding the unprofessional conduct or competency of any practitioner licensed, certified, or registered by a health regulatory board, or (iii) providing information pursuant to an investigation or testifying in a judicial or administrative proceeding as a result of such reports shall be immune from any civil liability resulting therefrom unless such person acted in bad faith or with <span class="dictionary">malicious</span> <span class="dictionary">intent</span>.</p></section></text><history>2004, c. 64; 2005, c. 932.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
