Bill Text: NY S01976 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the period of limitation for the prosecution of sex offenses committed against children; such actions may be commenced within 15 years after such child has reached the age of 18.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - REFERRED TO CODES [S01976 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01976-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1976

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURRAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the period of
          limitation for the prosecution of sex offenses committed against chil-
          dren; and to repeal paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 3 of section
          30.10 of such law relating to timeliness of the prosecution of  course
          of sexual conduct offenses

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 3 of section 30.10 of
     2  the criminal procedure law are REPEALED,  paragraph  (g)  is  relettered
     3  paragraph (f) and a new paragraph (e) is added to read as follows:
     4    (e)  A  prosecution  for  a sex offense defined in article one hundred
     5  thirty of the penal law, other than a sexual offense delineated in para-
     6  graph (a) of subdivision two of this section, committed against a  child
     7  less  than  eighteen  years of age, incest in the first, second or third
     8  degree as defined in sections 255.27, 255.26 and 255.25 of the penal law
     9  committed against a child less than eighteen years of age, or use  of  a
    10  child  in a sexual performance as defined in section 263.05 of the penal
    11  law, may be commenced within fifteen years after such child has  reached
    12  the age of eighteen.
    13    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately  and shall apply to
    14  offenses committed on and after such date as well as to offenses commit-
    15  ted prior thereto, provided that this act shall not  apply  to  offenses
    16  committed prior to such date on which the prosecution thereof was barred
    17  under  the  provisions of section 30.10 of the criminal procedure law in
    18  effect immediately prior to such date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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