SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1359
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS JACOB AND BRAY.
Read 1st time March 1, 2004, and ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
4685S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 556.037, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to statute of limitations for certain sexual offenses.
Section A. Section 556.037, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 556.037, to read as follows:
556.037. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 556.036, [to the contrary notwithstanding,] prosecutions for unlawful sexual offenses involving a person eighteen years of age or under must be commenced within [ten] twenty years after the victim reaches the age of eighteen unless the prosecutions are for forcible rape, attempted forcible rape, forcible sodomy, or attempted forcible sodomy in which case such prosecutions may be commenced at any time.