Code of Virginia
Title 19.2. Criminal Procedure
Chapter 1.2. Physical Evidence Recovery Kits and Trace Evidence Collection Kits
Title 19.2. Criminal Procedure
Chapter 1.2. Physical Evidence Recovery Kits and Trace Evidence Collection Kits
7/2/2025
§ 19.2-11.6:1. Telehealth sexual assault forensic examinations; admissibility of physical evidence recovery kit.
A. A health care provider may conduct a telehealth sexual assault forensic examination for a victim of sexual assault if a sexual assault forensic examiner is not readily available to conduct an in-person forensic medical examination for the collection of a physical evidence recovery kit.
B. A physical evidence recovery kit collected during a telehealth sexual assault forensic examination shall not be determined to be inadmissible solely because the physical evidence recovery kit was collected during a telehealth sexual assault forensic examination and not directly by a sexual assault forensic examiner, provided that such physical evidence recovery kit is otherwise admissible pursuant to the general rules of evidence.
