Bill Text: CA SB926 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Crimes: statute of limitation: felony sex crimes.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 921, Statutes of 2014. [SB926 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB926-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 926	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  921
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  MAY 27, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 21, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 17, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Beall and Lara
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Skinner)
   (Coauthors: Senators Block and Vidak)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bradford, Fong, Fox, and Hall)

                        JANUARY 29, 2014

   An act to amend Section 801.1 of the Penal Code, relating to
crimes.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 926, Beall. Crimes: statute of limitation: felony sex crimes.
   Under existing law, prosecution for specified felony sex offenses,
including rape, sodomy, lewd or lascivious acts, oral copulation,
continuous sexual abuse of a child, and acts of sexual penetration,
that are alleged to have been committed when the victim was under 18
years of age, may be commenced at any time prior to the victim's 28th
birthday.
   This bill would authorize prosecution of those crimes at any time
prior to the victim's 40th birthday when the crime was committed on
or after January 1, 2015, or for which the previous statute of
limitations has not run as of January 1, 2015.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 801.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   801.1.  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other limitation of time
described in this chapter, prosecution for a felony offense described
in Section 261, 286, 288, 288.5, 288a, or 289, or Section 289.5, as
enacted by Chapter 293 of the Statutes of 1991 relating to
penetration by an unknown object, that is alleged to have been
committed when the victim was under 18 years of age, may be commenced
any time prior to the victim's 40th birthday.
   (2) Paragraph (1) shall only apply to crimes that were committed
on or after January 1, 2015, or for which the statute of limitations
that was in effect prior to January 1, 2015, has not run as of
January 1, 2015.
   (b) Notwithstanding any other limitation of time described in this
chapter, if subdivision (a) does not apply, prosecution for a felony
offense described in subdivision (c) of Section 290 shall be
commenced within 10 years after commission of the offense.