Relates to the timeliness of prosecutions for assaults committed against children; establishes the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the child has reached the age of eighteen or the offense is reported, whichever occurs earlier.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6142
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 8, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. BLANKENBUSH, BURLING, CROUCH -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. HAWLEY, McLAUGHLIN, OAKS -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the timeli-
ness of prosecutions for assaults committed against children
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 3 of section 30.10 of the
2 criminal procedure law is relettered paragraph (h) and a new paragraph
3 (g) is added to read as follows:
4 (g) For purposes of a prosecution involving an assault defined in
5 section 120.01, 120.05 or 120.12 of the penal law; an assault defined in
6 section 120.10, 120.20 or 120.25 of the penal law committed against a
7 child less than eighteen years of age; or the offense of endangering the
8 welfare of a child as defined in section 260.10 of the penal law, the
9 period of limitation shall not begin to run until the child has reached
10 the age of eighteen, or the offense is reported to a law enforcement
11 agency or the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreat-
12 ment, whichever occurs earlier.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
14 have become a law and shall apply to offenses committed on or after such
15 effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09373-01-1
