RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 629 (HB 556) 2016 Regular Session Moreno
Existing law provides for a two-year prescriptive period to bring an action against a person
for damages sustained from a crime of violence.
New law extends the two-year prescriptive period to three years for a delictual action against
a person for sexual assault and provides for the commencement of the prescriptive period.
Effective August 1, 2016.
(Amends C.C. Art. 3493.10; Adds C.C. Art. 3496.2)