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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65717</law_id><section_number>8.01-47</section_number><catch_line>Immunity of persons investigating or reporting certain incidents at schools</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="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Actions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Defamation</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In addition to any other immunity he may have, any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who, in good faith with reasonable cause and without <span class="dictionary">malice</span>, acts to report, investigate, or cause any investigation to be made into the activities of any student or students or any other <span class="dictionary">person</span> or <span class="dictionary">persons</span> as they relate to conduct involving bomb threats, firebombs, explosive <span class="dictionary">materials</span>, or other similar devices as described in subdivisions A 6 and 7 of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Reports of certain acts to school authorities; reports of certain acts by school authorities to parents; reports of certain acts by school authorities to law enforcement" href="/22.1-279.3_1/">22.1-279.3:1</a>, alcohol or drug use or abuse in or related to the school or institution or in connection with any school or institution activity, or information that an individual poses any credible danger of serious bodily injury or death to one or more students, school personnel, or others on school property shall be immune from all civil liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed as the result of the making of such a report, investigation, or disclosure.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 8-631.1; 1972, c. 762; 1977, c. 617; 1982, c. 259; 1988, c. 159; 1995, c. 759; 2000, c. 79; 2001, cc. 688, 820; 2003, c. 954; 2013, c. 665; 2022, cc. 793, 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
