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Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law provides that a criminal proceeding for sex trafficking must be commenced within 4 years after the commission of the offense. (NRS 171.085) Section 3 of this bill increases the limitation of time within which a criminal prosecution for sex trafficking must begin to 6 years after the commission of the offense. Section 5 of this bill clarifies that the amendatory provisions of this bill apply to a person who: (1) committed sex trafficking before July 1, 2021, if the applicable statute of limitations has commenced but has not yet expired on July 1, 2021; or (2) commits sex trafficking on or after July 1, 2021. SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Sections 1 and 2. (Deleted by amendment.) Sec. 3. NRS 171.085 is hereby amended to read as follows: 171.085 Except as otherwise provided in NRS 171.080 to 171.084, inclusive, and 171.095, an indictment for: 1. Theft, robbery, burglary, forgery, arson, sex trafficking, a violation of NRS 90.570, a violation punishable pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection 3 of NRS 598.0999 or a violation of NRS 205.377 must be found, or an information or complaint filed, within 4 years after the commission of the offense. 2. Sexual assault must be found, or an information or complaint filed, within 20 years after the commission of the offense. 3. Sex trafficking must be found, or an information or complaint filed, within 6 years after the commission of the offense. 4. Any felony other than the felonies listed in subsections 1 , and and 3 must be found, or an information or complaint filed, within 3 years after the commission of the offense.

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Carrie Ann Buck (R)*,  Greg Hafen (R)*,  Scott Hammond (R)*,  Joe Hardy (R)*,  Melissa Hardy (R)*,  Heidi Kasama (R)*,  Lisa Krasner (R)*,  Keith Pickard (R)*,  Jim Wheeler (R)*,  Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod (D),  Lesley Cohen (D),  Jill Dickman (R),  Bea Duran (D),  John Ellison (R),  Edgar Flores (D),  Cecelia González (D),  Michelle Gorelow (D),  Alexis Hansen (R),  Ben Kieckhefer (R),  Glen Leavitt (R),  Elaine Marzola (D),  Andrew Matthews (R),  Cameron Miller (D),  Rochelle Nguyen (D),  P.K. O'Neill (R),  David Orentlicher (D),  Thomas Roberts (R),  Heidi Seevers Gansert (R),  Shondra Summers-Armstrong (D),  Robin Titus (R),  Jill Tolles (R),  Selena Torres-Fossett (D),  Steve Yeager (D), 

Approved by the Governor. Chapter 180. (on 05/28/2021)

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