BILL NUMBER: SB 926	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	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  Fox   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, as amended, 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  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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  the age of
 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.