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GA HB1069
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/28/2020
Primary Sponsor
Scott Holcomb
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AI Summary
- Eliminates the statute of limitations for prosecution of rape, aggravated sodomy, and aggravated sexual battery committed on or after July 1, 2020, allowing these crimes to be prosecuted at any time
- Removes the existing 15-year statute of limitations specifically applicable to forcible rape
- Removes rape, aggravated sodomy, and aggravated sexual battery from the list of offenses that require DNA evidence to be prosecuted without a time limit, since those offenses would no longer need any such condition
- Retains the existing DNA-based exception allowing unlimited prosecution time for armed robbery, kidnapping, and aggravated child molestation
- Amends Code Section 17-3-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Chapter 3 of Title 17), leaving unchanged the existing statutes of limitations for murder (no limit), other death/life-imprisonment crimes (7 years), other felonies (4 years), and misdemeanors (2 years)
Legislative Description
Criminal procedure; statute of limitations on the offenses of rape, aggravated sodomy, and aggravated sexual battery; revise
Last Action
House Second Readers
3/3/2020
Full Bill Text
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