Bill > SB813

This bill expands the statute of limitations, which is the time limit for prosecuting a crime, for certain serious sex offenses, including rape, sodomy, lewd or lascivious acts, continuous sexual abuse of a child, oral copulation, and sexual penetration, allowing prosecution to be commenced at any time under specific circumstances. This change applies to crimes committed on or after January 1, 2017, and to crimes where the previous time limit had not yet expired as of that date, effectively removing the time limit for these offenses in many cases. The bill also makes technical adjustments to existing laws regarding when statutes of limitations begin to run, particularly in cases involving fraud, elder abuse, or misconduct in office, and includes provisions for when this bill's changes to Section 803 of the Penal Code will take effect in relation to another bill, SB 1088.