Bill Text: CT HB05246 | 2018 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut House Bill 5246 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Eliminating The Statute Of Limitations In The Case Of Certain Sexual Assault Offenses.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-17 - File Number 530 [HB05246 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-HB05246-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 5246*
*February Session, 2018*		_____HB05246JUD___040418____

AN ACT ELIMINATING THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN THE CASE OF CERTAIN SEXUAL ASSAULT OFFENSES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 54-193 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2018, and applicable to any offense committed on or after October 1, 2018, and to any offense committed prior to October 1, 2018, for which the statute of limitations in effect at the time of the commission of the offense had not yet expired as of October 1, 2018):

(a) There shall be no limitation of time within which a person may be prosecuted for (1) a capital felony under the provisions of section 53a-54b in effect prior to April 25, 2012, a class A felony or a violation of section 53a-54d or 53a-169, a class B felony violation of section 53a-70 or 53a-70a, a class D felony violation of section 53a-73a, or a violation of section 53a-70b, 53a-71, 53a-72a or 53a-72b, (2) a violation of section 53a-165aa or 53a-166 in which such person renders criminal assistance to another person who has committed an offense set forth in subdivision (1) of this subsection, (3) a violation of section 53a-156 committed during a proceeding that results in the conviction of another person subsequently determined to be actually innocent of the offense or offenses of which such other person was convicted, or (4) a motor vehicle violation or offense that resulted in the death of another person and involved a violation of subsection (a) of section 14-224.

(b) No person may be prosecuted for any offense, other than an offense set forth in subsection (a) of this section, for which the punishment is or may be imprisonment in excess of one year, except within five years next after the offense has been committed.

(c) [No] (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, no person may be prosecuted for any offense, other than an offense set forth in subsection (a) or (b) of this section, except within one year next after the offense has been committed.

(2) No person may be prosecuted for a class A misdemeanor violation of section 53a-73a, except within ten years next after the offense has been committed.

(d) If the person against whom an indictment, information or complaint for any of said offenses is brought has fled from and resided out of this state during the period so limited, it may be brought against such person at any time within such period, during which such person resides in this state, after the commission of the offense.

(e) When any suit, indictment, information or complaint for any crime may be brought within any other time than is limited by this section, it shall be brought within such time.

Sec. 2. Section 54-193a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2018, and applicable to any offense committed on or after October 1, 2018, and to any offense committed prior to October 1, 2018, for which the statute of limitations in effect at the time of the commission of the offense had not yet expired as of October 1, 2018):

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 54-193, as amended by this act, [no person may be prosecuted for any offense, except a class A felony,] there shall be no limitation of time within which a person may be prosecuted for an offense involving sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or sexual assault of a minor. [except within thirty years from the date the victim attains the age of majority or within five years from the date the victim notifies any police officer or state's attorney acting in such police officer's or state's attorney's official capacity of the commission of the offense, whichever is earlier, provided if the prosecution is for a violation of subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 53a-71, the victim notified such police officer or state's attorney not later than five years after the commission of the offense.]

Sec. 3. Section 54-193b of the general statutes is repealed. (Effective October 1, 2018)


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2018, and applicable to any offense committed on or after October 1, 2018, and to any offense committed prior to October 1, 2018, for which the statute of limitations in effect at the time of the commission of the offense had not yet expired as of October 1, 2018	54-193
Sec. 2	October 1, 2018, and applicable to any offense committed on or after October 1, 2018, and to any offense committed prior to October 1, 2018, for which the statute of limitations in effect at the time of the commission of the offense had not yet expired as of October 1, 2018	54-193a
Sec. 3	October 1, 2018	Repealer section