MS HB572

Removes the age restriction from Mississippi's statute of limitations for sexual battery by eliminating language limiting the no-limitation provision to "sexual battery of a child"

Sexual battery offenses now have no statute of limitations for prosecution, matching the treatment of rape and other serious felonies like murder, kidnapping, and robbery

Maintains existing five-year statute of limitations for conspiracy, felonious assistance-program fraud, and felonious abuse of vulnerable persons

Maintains existing six-year statute of limitations for larceny of timber and two-year statute of limitations for all other offenses not specified

Effective July 1, 2016