                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY OF MEMBERS OF CERTAIN COMMITTEES, ETC (§
8.01-44.1)

Every member of any committee, board, group, commission, or other entity
established pursuant to federal or state law or regulation which functions to
authorize, review, evaluate, or make recommendations on the nature, conduct,
activities, or procedures involved in or related to programs or research
protocols conducted under the supervision of members of the faculty or staff of
any hospital or institution of higher education, including but not limited to
the design or conduct of experiments involving human subjects, shall be immune
from civil liability for any act, decision, omission, or utterance done or made
in performance of such duties as a member of such committee, board, group,
commission, or other entity, unless such act, decision, omission, or utterance
is done or made in bad faith or with malicious intent or unless the member, when
acting to authorize the nature, conduct, activities, or procedures involved in
or related to a program or research protocol, knows or reasonably should know
that the program or research protocol is being or will be conducted in violation
of Chapter 5.1 (§ 32.1-162.16 et seq.) of Title 32.1. However, the immunity
created herein shall not apply to those persons engaged in the actual conduct of
the programs or research protocols.

HISTORY: 1980, c. 479; 1981, c. 40; 1992, c. 603.