General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5473
February Session, 2010 LCO No. 1928
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Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Introduced by:
(JUD)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 5473
February Session, 2010
LCO No. 1928
*01928_______JUD*
Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Introduced by:
(JUD)
AN ACT CONCERNING ACTIONS TO RECOVER DAMAGES FOR THE SEXUAL ABUSE, SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OR SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A MINOR.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 52-577d of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage and applicable to any cause of action arising from an act or omission occurring prior to, on or after said date):
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 52-577, [no] an action to recover damages for personal injury to a minor, including emotional distress, caused by sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or sexual assault may be brought by such person [later than thirty years from the date such person attains the age of majority] at any time after the date of the act complained of.
Sec. 2. Section 52-352b of the 2010 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage and applicable to any cause of action arising from an act or omission occurring prior to, on or after said date):
The following property of any natural person shall be exempt:
(a) Necessary apparel, bedding, foodstuffs, household furniture and appliances;
(b) Tools, books, instruments, farm animals and livestock feed, which are necessary to the exemptioner in the course of his or her occupation, profession or farming operation;
(c) Burial plot for the exemptioner and his or her immediate family;
(d) Public assistance payments and any wages earned by a public assistance recipient under an incentive earnings or similar program;
(e) Health and disability insurance payments;
(f) Health aids necessary to enable the exemptioner to work or to sustain health;
(g) Workers' compensation, Social Security, veterans and unemployment benefits;
(h) Court-approved payments for child support;
(i) Arms and military equipment, uniforms or musical instruments owned by any member of the militia or armed forces of the United States;
(j) One motor vehicle to the value of three thousand five hundred dollars, provided value shall be determined as the fair market value of the motor vehicle less the amount of all liens and security interests which encumber it;
(k) Wedding and engagement rings;
(l) Residential utility deposits for one residence, and one residential security deposit;
(m) Any assets or interests of an exemptioner in, or payments received by the exemptioner from, a plan or arrangement described in section 52-321a;
(n) Alimony and support, other than child support, but only to the extent that wages are exempt from execution under section 52-361a;
(o) An award under a crime reparations act;
(p) All benefits allowed by any association of persons in this state towards the support of any of its members incapacitated by sickness or infirmity from attending to his usual business;
(q) All moneys due the exemptioner from any insurance company on any insurance policy issued on exempt property, to the same extent that the property was exempt;
(r) Any interest of the exemptioner in any property not to exceed in value one thousand dollars;
(s) Any interest of the exemptioner not to exceed in value four thousand dollars in any accrued dividend or interest under, or loan value of, any unmatured life insurance contract owned by the exemptioner under which the insured is the exemptioner or an individual of whom the exemptioner is a dependent;
(t) The homestead of the exemptioner to the value of seventy-five thousand dollars, or, in the case of a money judgment arising out of services provided at a hospital, to the value of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars, except that, in the case of a money judgment arising out of the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or sexual assault of a minor, the value of the homestead of the natural person shall not be exempt, provided value shall be determined as the fair market value of the real property less the amount of any statutory or consensual lien which encumbers it; and
(u) Irrevocable transfers of money to an account held by a debt adjuster licensed pursuant to sections 36a-655 to 36a-665, inclusive, for the benefit of creditors of the exemptioner.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage and applicable to any cause of action arising from an act or omission occurring prior to, on or after said date 52-577d
Sec. 2 from passage and applicable to any cause of action arising from an act or omission occurring prior to, on or after said date 52-352b
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage and applicable to any cause of action arising from an act or omission occurring prior to, on or after said date
52-577d
Sec. 2
from passage and applicable to any cause of action arising from an act or omission occurring prior to, on or after said date
52-352b
Statement of Purpose:
To protect children by eliminating the statute of limitations for an action to recover damages for the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or sexual assault of a minor and by eliminating the homestead exemption in such cases.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]