Bill Text: CT SB01042 | 2017 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut Senate Bill 1042 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Statute Of Limitations For The Prosecution Of Sexual Assault.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-06-05 - House Calendar Number 653 [SB01042 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-SB01042-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 1042*
*January Session, 2017*		_____SB01042JUD___040617____

AN ACT CONCERNING THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR THE PROSECUTION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.

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 Section 54-193 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2017, and applicable to any offense committed on or after said date and to any offense committed prior to said date for which the statute of limitations in effect at the time of the commission of the offense had not yet expired as of said date):

(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, (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 a class B felony violation of section 53a-70 or 53a-70a or a violation of section 53a-70b, 53a-71, 53a-72a or 53a-72b for which the punishment is or may be imprisonment in excess of one year, except within ten years next after the offense has been committed.

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

[(d)] (e) 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)] (f) 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. Subsection (c) of section 12-660 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2017):

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of [subsection (b) of] section 54-193, as amended by this act, a person may be prosecuted for a violation of any provision of this chapter more than five years after such violation.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2017, and applicable to any offense committed on or after said date and to any offense committed prior to said date for which the statute of limitations in effect at the time of the commission of the offense had not yet expired as of said date	54-193
Sec. 2	October 1, 2017	12-660(c)