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Committee unanimously backs bill removing civil time limits for certain offenses against children
Summary
The Judiciary Committee unanimously favorably recommended HB 117, which conforms multiple offenses to prior legislation that eliminated the civil statute of limitations for certain child-abuse offenses and moves related code provisions into the updated statutory section.
Representative Ivory presented HB 117, explaining the bill extends the 2015 reform that eliminated the civil statute of limitations for certain offenses against children and aligns several other related offenses with that standard.
"In 2015 with House Bill 277, we eliminated the statute of limitations for [child abuse] crimes," Representative Ivory said, adding HB 117 "conforms all of these various actions that amount to [child abuse] of a child and eliminates the statute of limitations as…
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