Senate Bill S6722

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides for the timeliness of commencing criminal and civil action for sexual offenses committed against children

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S6722 (ACTIVE) - Details

See other versions of this Bill:
S6575 ,
A8421 ,
A5885 ,
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §30.10, CP L; amd §208, RR3211 & 3403, add §214-g, CPLR; amd §§50-e & 50-i, Gen Muni L; amd §10, Ct Claims Act; amd §3813, Ed L; amd §219-c, add §219-d, Judy L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S2440

2017-S6722 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution of a sexual offense committed against a child shall not begin to run until the child turns 23 years of age; provides that a civil action for conduct constituting a sexual offense against a child, shall be brought before the child turns 50 years of age; revives previously barred actions related to sexual abuse of children; grants civil trial preference to such actions

2017-S6722 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6722 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6722
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 14, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of the Governor) -- read
   twice  and  ordered  printed,  and when printed to be committed to the
   Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to  the  statute
   of  limitations  in criminal prosecution of a sexual offense committed
   against a child; to  amend  the  civil  practice  law  and  rules,  in
   relation  to the statute of limitations for civil actions related to a
   sexual offense committed against a child, reviving such actions other-
   wise barred by the existing statute of limitations and granting  trial
   preference  to  such  actions;  to amend the general municipal law, in
   relation to providing that the notice of claim  provisions  shall  not
   apply  to  such actions; to amend the court of claims act, in relation
   to providing that the notice of intention to file provisions shall not
   apply to such actions; to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to
   providing  that the notice of claim provisions shall not apply to such
   actions; and to amend the  judiciary  law,  in  relation  to  judicial
   training  relating  to sexual abuse of minors and rules reviving civil
   actions relating to sexual offenses committed against children
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.    Paragraph  (f) of subdivision 3 of section 30.10 of the
 criminal procedure law, as separately amended by chapters 3 and  320  of
 the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
   (f)  For  purposes  of  a  prosecution  involving  a sexual offense as
 defined in article one hundred thirty of the penal  law,  other  than  a
 sexual  offense  delineated  in paragraph (a) of subdivision two of this
 section, committed against a child less  than  eighteen  years  of  age,
 incest  in  the  first,  second  or  third degree as defined in sections
 255.27, 255.26 and 255.25 of the penal law  committed  against  a  child
 less  than eighteen years of age, or use of a child in a sexual perform-
 ance as defined in section 263.05 of the penal law, the period of  limi-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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