GREEN SHEET REDIGEST
HB 556 2016 Regular Session Moreno
(KEYWORD, SUMMARY, AND DIGEST as amended by Senate committee
amendments)
PRESCRIPTION: Provides a three-year liberative prescriptive period for actions
arising from cases of rape
DIGEST
Present law provides for a two-year prescriptive period to bring an action against a person
for damages sustained from a crime of violence.
Proposed law extends the two-year prescriptive period to three years in an action against a
person for rape.
(Amends C.C. Art. 3493.10; adds C.C. Art. 3496.2)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Judiciary A to the
engrossed bill
1. Specifies that C.C. Art. 3496.2 pertains to delictual actions.
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Prepared by Benjamin A. Huxen, II.