Virginia House Bill 769 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-16 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Statute of limitations; sexual crimes against minors. Extends the statute of limitations to one year after the victim reaches 18 years of age for misdemeanor violations of the following crimes: carnal knowledge of offender by employee of bail bond company, sexual battery, infected sexual battery, sexual abuse of a child age 13 or 14 by an adult, attempted sexual battery, and tongue penetration by adult of mouth of child under age 13. Under existing law, there is a one-year statute of limitations on most misdemeanors.

Statute of limitations; sexual crimes against minors.

Del. Todd Gilbert [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2016-01-12	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2016-01-12	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102957D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	8	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB769
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB769+hil