Florida Senate - 2014                                     SB 494
       
       
        
       By Senator Benacquisto
       
       
       
       
       
       30-00067-14                                            2014494__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to time limitations; amending s.
    3         775.15, F.S.; eliminating time limitations to the
    4         prosecution of specified criminal offenses relating to
    5         lewd or lascivious battery, molestation, conduct, or
    6         exhibition against a child if the victim was younger
    7         than 16 years of age at the time of the offense;
    8         providing applicability; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Subsection (18) is added to section 775.15,
   13  Florida Statutes, to read:
   14         775.15 Time limitations; general time limitations;
   15  exceptions.—
   16         (18)(a) If the offense is a violation of s. 800.04 and the
   17  victim was younger than 16 years of age at the time the offense
   18  was committed, a prosecution of the offense may be commenced at
   19  any time.
   20         (b) Paragraph (a) applies to any offense committed on or
   21  after October 1, 2014.
   22         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.