Bill Text: MO HB960 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Specifies that the statute of limitations will be two years for a class A misdemeanor and one year for a class B or class C misdemeanor instead of one year for any misdemeanor
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-12 - Referred: Judiciary (H) [HB960 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2011-HB960-Introduced.html
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE RUZICKA.
2085L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 556.036, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the statute of limitations, with penalty provisions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 556.036, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 556.036, to read as follows:
556.036. 1. A prosecution for murder, forcible rape, attempted forcible rape, forcible sodomy, attempted forcible sodomy, or any class A felony may be commenced at any time.
2. Except as otherwise provided in this section, prosecutions for other offenses must be commenced within the following periods of limitation:
(1) For any felony, three years, except as provided in subdivision (4) of this subsection;
(2) For any class A misdemeanor, two years;
(3) For any class B or C misdemeanor, one year;
[(3] (4) For any infraction, six months;
[(4)] (5) For any violation of section 569.040, when classified as a class B felony, or any violation of section 569.050 or 569.055, five years.
3. If the period prescribed in subsection 2 of this section has expired, a prosecution may nevertheless be commenced for:
(1) Any offense a material element of which is either fraud or a breach of fiduciary obligation within one year after discovery of the offense by an aggrieved party or by a person who has a legal duty to represent an aggrieved party and who is himself or herself not a party to the offense, but in no case shall this provision extend the period of limitation by more than three years. As used in this subdivision, the term "person who has a legal duty to represent an aggrieved party" shall mean the attorney general or the prosecuting or circuit attorney having jurisdiction pursuant to section 407.553, for purposes of offenses committed pursuant to sections 407.511 to 407.556; and
(2) Any offense based upon misconduct in office by a public officer or employee at any time when the defendant is in public office or employment or within two years thereafter, but in no case shall this provision extend the period of limitation by more than three years; and
(3) Any offense based upon an intentional and willful fraudulent claim of child support arrearage to a public servant in the performance of his or her duties within one year after discovery of the offense, but in no case shall this provision extend the period of limitation by more than three years.
4. An offense is committed either when every element occurs, or, if a legislative purpose to prohibit a continuing course of conduct plainly appears, at the time when the course of conduct or the defendant's complicity therein is terminated. Time starts to run on the day after the offense is committed.
5. A prosecution is commenced for a misdemeanor or infraction when the information is filed and for a felony when the complaint or indictment is filed.
6. The period of limitation does not run:
(1) During any time when the accused is absent from the state, but in no case shall this provision extend the period of limitation otherwise applicable by more than three years; or
(2) During any time when the accused is concealing himself from justice either within or without this state; or
(3) During any time when a prosecution against the accused for the offense is pending in this state; or
(4) During any time when the accused is found to lack mental fitness to proceed pursuant to section 552.020.
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