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MS SB2267

Bill

Official Source

Status

Failed

2/23/2016

Primary Sponsor

Brice Wiggins

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Origin

Senate

2016 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Eliminates the statute of limitations for sexual battery prosecutions regardless of victim age, expanding current law which only exempted sexual battery of children from time limits
  • Amends Mississippi Code Section 99-1-5 to remove language limiting the no-time-bar provision to sexual battery "of a child" under specific subsections
  • Places sexual battery on equal footing with other serious crimes like murder, rape, kidnapping, and arson that have no time limit for prosecution
  • Effective date of July 1, 2016

Legislative Description

Sexual battery; conform statute of limitation to rape.

Last Action

Died In Committee

2/23/2016

Committee Referrals

Judiciary, Division A2/5/2016

Full Bill Text

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