HOUSE BILL NO. 1770 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE AMATO.
3875H.02I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT To amend chapter 556, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to time limitations for prosecutions for abuse or neglect of a child.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 556, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be 2 known as section 556.035, to read as follows: 556.035. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 556.036, prosecutions for 2 abuse or neglect of a child under eighteen years of age under section 568.060 must be 3 commenced within ten years from the victim's eighteenth birthday. ✔
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.
Statutes affected: