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| Bill | Inmate, parolee, probationer, detainee, or pretrial defendant, etc.; carnal knowledge. | Carnal knowledge of an inmate, parolee, probationer, arrestee, detainee, or pretrial defendant or posttrial offender; local or state law-enforcement officer; penalty. Adds law-enforcement officers to those persons who are guilty of a Class 6 felony if they are in a position of authority over and carnally know without force, threat, or intimidation a person in the custody of a law-enforcement officer or an inmate, parolee, probationer, detainee, or pretrial defendant or posttrial offender, including those in the custody of a private, local, or state law-enforcement agency. In addition, the bill adds a person in the custody of a law-enforcement officer to the list of those persons for whom it is unlawful for a person in such authority to commit the offense of carnal knowledge and provides that a person is in the custody of a law-enforcement officer when due to physical force, words, or actions by the law-enforcement officer, such person reasonably believes he is not free to leave under the circumstances. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020specialI | HB 5045 | Virginia HB 5045 (2020specialI) |
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enacted | 5 | 47 | 10 | 2020-08-17 | 2020-10-28 | openstates | ocd-bill/eaea8986-e2bb-48e5-8155-a979afe18a53 | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+HB5045 | 65fecf0026b9724ae5ac33ff8828c473f9b00420b9e2a503e35d143583b447d5 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Virginia HB 5045 (2020specialI) — Inmate, parolee, probationer, detainee, or pretrial defendant, etc.; carnal knowledge.
Carnal knowledge of an inmate, parolee, probationer, arrestee, detainee, or pretrial defendant or posttrial offender; local or state law-enforcement officer; penalty. Adds law-enforcement officers to those persons who are guilty of a Class 6 felony if they are in a position of authority over and carnally know without force, threat, or intimidation a person in the custody of a law-enforcement officer or an inmate, parolee, probationer, detainee, or pretrial defendant or posttrial offender, including those in the custody of a private, local, or state law-enforcement agency. In addition, the bill adds a person in the custody of a law-enforcement officer to the list of those persons for whom it is unlawful for a person in such authority to commit the offense of carnal knowledge and provides that a person is in the custody of a law-enforcement officer when due to physical force, words, or actions by the law-enforcement officer, such person reasonably believes he is not free to leave under the circumstances.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0026) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5045ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from VCSC (HB5045) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from VCSC (HB5045H1) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from VCSC (HB5045S1) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 2-N) — 93–2 (pass) · lower
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-08-17 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200286D
introduction - 2020-08-17 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
referral-committee - 2020-08-18 Impact statement from VCSC (HB5045)
- 2020-08-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB5045)
- 2020-08-26 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2020-08-26 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-08-26 Committee substitute printed 20201022D-H1
substitution - 2020-08-26 Referred to Committee on Appropriations
referral-committee - 2020-08-27 Impact statement from VCSC (HB5045H1)
- 2020-08-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB5045H1)
- 2020-08-31 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-09-02 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-09-03 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-09-03 Committee substitute agreed to 20201022D-H1
- 2020-09-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB5045H1
- 2020-09-04 Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-09-04 VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- 2020-09-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2020-09-09 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
referral-committee - 2020-09-16 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-09-16 Committee substitute printed 20201181D-S1
substitution - 2020-09-16 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
referral-committee - 2020-09-17 Impact statement from VCSC (HB5045S1)
- 2020-09-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB5045S1)
- 2020-09-24 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-09-25 Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 2020-10-01 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-10-01 Reading of substitute waived
- 2020-10-01 Committee substitute agreed to
- 2020-10-01 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB5045S1
- 2020-10-01 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-10-01 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 2020-10-01 Passed by for the day
- 2020-10-02 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-10-02 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB5045S1
- 2020-10-02 Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-10-07 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-10-07 Senate substitute agreed to by House 20201181D-S1 (94-Y 2-N)
- 2020-10-07 VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 2-N)
- 2020-10-14 Enrolled
- 2020-10-14 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-10-14 Signed by President
- 2020-10-16 Impact statement from VCSC (HB5045ER)
- 2020-10-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB5045ER)
- 2020-10-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 21, 2020
- 2020-10-21 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 28, 2020
- 2020-10-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 26 (effective 3/1/21)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eaea8986-e2bb-48e5-8155-a979afe18a53. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).