                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SUBMISSION OF EVIDENCE (§ 32.1-162.15:9)

Every treatment hospital and approved pediatric health care facility that
provides a medical forensic examination that includes completion of a physical
evidence recovery kit to a sexual assault patient who has elected to report the
assault to law enforcement shall notify the law-enforcement agency with the
primary responsibility for investigating an alleged sexual assault within four
hours of the medical forensic examination and arrange for collection of the
physical evidence recovery kit within a reasonable timeframe. A treatment
hospital or approved pediatric health care facility that provides a medical
forensic examination that includes completion of a physical evidence recovery
kit to a sexual assault patient who elects not to report the sexual assault to
law enforcement shall comply with the provisions of § 19.2-11.6 relating to
anonymous physical evidence recovery kits.

HISTORY: 2020, c. 725; 2025, cc. 480, 491.