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Bills · 2009-2010 Regular Session

AB 453

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the statute of limitations for sexual contact with a child.

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the time a person has to bring an action (the statute of

limitations) for an injury resulting from being sexually assaulted or subject to incest

as a child, or from being subject to sexual contact by a member of the clergy as a child,

is any time before the injured party reaches the age of 35.

This bill removes the time limit for bringing those actions. In addition, the bill

applies this unlimited time period to a broader range of actions. Under the bill, there

is no limit on the time a person has to bring an action for injury resulting from being

subject, as a child, to any sexual contact by an adult or by an adult member of the

clergy. The bill also revives any cause of action that was barred by the present statute

of limitations and allows an injured party to bring that action for his or her injury

within three years after the effective date of the bill.

Sponsors

Introduced by: A. Williams (D) , Berceau (D) , Bies (R) , Honadel (R) , Hraychuck (D) , Molepske Jr. (D) , Nygren (R) , Parisi (D) , Pasch (D) , Petersen (R) , Pope-Roberts (D) , Richards (D) , Sinicki (D) , Soletski (D) , Suder (R) , Tauchen (R) , Turner (D) , Van Roy (R) , Vruwink (D) , Wood (I) , Zepnick (D)

8 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Coggs (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Lassa (D) , Olsen (R) , Roys (D) , Schultz (R) , Taylor (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by committee on Children and Families, Ayes 6, Noes 2

Passed 6–2 Oct 29, 2009 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Sep 25, 2009 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Parisi, Suder, Soletski, Brooks, Pope-Roberts, Richards, Pasch, Berceau, Wood, Sinicki, Bies, Zepnick, A. Ott, Vruwink, Nygren, Van Roy, Tauchen, Nerison, Turner, Honadel, Hraychuck, A. Williams, Molepske Jr. and Petersen;Cosponsored by Senators Lassa, Taylor, Olsen, Schultz, Erpenbach and Coggs

  2. Sep 25, 2009 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Children and Families

  3. Sep 30, 2009 · Assembly

    Representative Ballweg added as a coauthor

  4. Oct 21, 2009 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Oct 28, 2009 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Oct 28, 2009 · Assembly

    Assembly amendment 1 offered by committee on Children and Families

  7. Oct 28, 2009 · Assembly

    Assembly amendment 2 offered by committee on Children and Families

  8. Oct 29, 2009 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by committee on Children and Families, Ayes 6, Noes 2

  9. Oct 29, 2009 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  10. Nov 3, 2009 · Assembly

    Representative Brooks withdrawn as a coauthor

  11. Nov 5, 2009 · Assembly

    Representative Nerison withdrawn as a coauthor

  12. Dec 28, 2009 · Assembly

    Representative Roys added as a coauthor

  13. Jan 26, 2010 · Assembly

    Representative A. Ott withdrawn as a coauthor

  14. Feb 25, 2010 · Assembly

    Assembly amendment 3 offered by Representative Staskunas

  15. Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1