Senate Bill No. 926

Introduced by Senators Beall and Lara

(Coauthors: Senators Block and Vidak)

(Coauthors: Assembly Members 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 introduced, 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.

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) 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, may
be commenced any time prior to the victim’s begin delete 28th end delete begin insert 40th end insert birthday.

(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.