Code of Virginia § 19.2-327.15. Definitions.
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As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Labor trafficking" means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to debt bondage, involuntary servitude, peonage, or slavery.
"Qualifying offense" means a conviction or adjudication of delinquency for any attempted, completed, or conspired
(i)violation of § 18.2-250 or
(ii)misdemeanor violation of § 18.2-96 , 18.2-102 , or 18.2-103 ; subsection A of § 18.2-108 ; § 18.2-108.01 , 18.2-117 , 18.2-118 , 18.2-119 , 18.2-137 , 18.2-146 , 18.2-147 , 18.2-160.2 , 18.2-173 , 18.2-178 , 18.2-181 , or 18.2-186.2 ; subdivision B 1 of § 18.2-186.3 ; § 18.2-195 , 18.2-197 , 18.2-206 , 18.2-258 , 18.2-266.1 , 18.2-346 , 18.2-347 , 18.2-349 , 18.2-388 , 18.2-415 , 46.2-300 , or 46.2-301 ; or subdivision A 1, 2, or 3 of § 46.2-346 .
"Sex trafficking" means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act that is induced by force, fraud, or coercion or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age.
"Victim of human trafficking" means any person subjected to an act or the practice of labor trafficking or sex trafficking, regardless of whether any other person has been charged or convicted of an offense related to the labor trafficking or sex trafficking of such person.
2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 543 ; 2025, cc. 633 , 663 .