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MO SB467

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/19/2015

Primary Sponsor

Richard Sifton

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Origin

Senate

2015 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Eliminates the 10-year statute of limitations for civil actions seeking damages for personal injury caused by sexual contact from a relative within the third degree of affinity or consanguinity

  • Removes all time limits for civil actions to recover damages from childhood sexual abuse, which previously had to be filed within 10 years of turning 21 or within 3 years of discovering the abuse caused the injury

  • Adds "abuse or neglect of a child" to the list of offenses (alongside murder, first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy, and Class A felonies) that have no statute of limitations for criminal prosecution

  • Eliminates the 30-year limitation period for prosecuting unlawful sexual offenses against victims 18 years or younger, allowing such prosecutions to be commenced at any time

  • Applies retroactively to actions that would have been previously barred under prior statutes of limitation

Legislative Description

Removes the statute of limitations on civil actions and prosecutions involving offenses against children

Last Action

Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

3/5/2015

Committee Referrals

Judiciary And Civil And Criminal Jurisprudence3/5/2015

Full Bill Text

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