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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0535\">535<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2023, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0312\">312<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1395283,"object_type":"law","relational_id":351228,"identifier":"19.2-11.12","token":"19.2\/1.2\/19.2-11.12","url":"\/19.2-11.12\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/19.2-11.12\/","token":"19.2\/1.2\/19.2-11.12","dublin_core":{"Title":"Costs of physical evidence recovery kits and trace evidence collection kits","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 19.2-11.12","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>No <span class=\"dictionary\">victim of sexual assault<\/span> or strangulation shall be charged for the cost of collecting or storing a <span class=\"dictionary\">physical evidence recovery kit<\/span>, an <span class=\"dictionary\">anonymous physical evidence recovery kit<\/span>, a <span class=\"dictionary\">trace evidence collection kit<\/span>, or an <span class=\"dictionary\">anonymous trace evidence collection kit<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCOSTS OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE RECOVERY KITS AND TRACE EVIDENCE COLLECTION KITS (\u00a7\n19.2-11.12)\n\nNo victim of sexual assault or strangulation shall be charged for the cost of\ncollecting or storing a physical evidence recovery kit, an anonymous physical\nevidence recovery kit, a trace evidence collection kit, or an anonymous trace\nevidence collection kit.\n\nHISTORY: 2017, c. 535; 2023, c. 312.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}