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| 2 | 2 | | <BillNo> <Sponsor> |
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| 4 | 4 | | HOUSE BILL 973 |
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| 5 | 5 | | By McCalmon |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | HB0973 |
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| 9 | 9 | | 002992 |
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| 10 | 10 | | - 1 - |
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| 11 | 11 | | |
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| 12 | 12 | | AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 28 |
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| 13 | 13 | | and Title 40, Chapter 2, relative to commencement |
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| 14 | 14 | | of proceedings. |
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| 16 | 16 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 40-2-101(q)(3)(B), is amended by |
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| 18 | 18 | | deleting the subdivision and substituting: |
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| 19 | 19 | | (B) |
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| 20 | 20 | | (i) For offenses occurring on or after July 1, 2019, but before July 1, |
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| 21 | 21 | | 2025, in order to commence prosecution for an offense listed in subdivision (q)(1) |
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| 22 | 22 | | under the circumstances described in subdivision (q)(3)(A), at a date that is more |
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| 23 | 23 | | than twenty-five (25) years from the date the victim becomes eighteen (18) years |
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| 24 | 24 | | of age, the prosecution is required to offer admissible and credible evidence |
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| 25 | 25 | | corroborating the allegations or similar acts by the defendant. |
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| 26 | 26 | | (ii) For offenses occurring on or after July 1, 2025, in order to commence |
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| 27 | 27 | | prosecution for an offense listed in subdivision (q)(1) under the circumstances |
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| 28 | 28 | | described in subdivision (q)(3)(A), at a date that is more than thirty (30) years |
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| 29 | 29 | | from the date the victim becomes eighteen (18) years of age, the prosecution is |
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| 30 | 30 | | required to offer admissible and credible evidence corroborating the allegations |
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| 31 | 31 | | or similar acts by the defendant. |
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| 32 | 32 | | SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 40-2-101(q)(4), is amended by |
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| 33 | 33 | | deleting the subdivision and substituting: |
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| 34 | 34 | | (4) This subsection (q) applies to offenses: |
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| 37 | 37 | | - 2 - 002992 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (A) Committed on or after July 1, 2019, except as provided in subdivision |
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| 40 | 40 | | (q)(3)(B); or |
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| 41 | 41 | | (B) Committed prior to July 1, 2019, unless prosecution for the offense is |
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| 42 | 42 | | barred because the applicable time limitation set out in this section for |
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| 43 | 43 | | prosecution of the offense expired prior to July 1, 2019. |
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| 44 | 44 | | SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 28-3-116(b)(2), is amended by |
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| 45 | 45 | | deleting the language "on or after July 1, 2019" and substituting "on or after July 1, 2019, but |
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| 46 | 46 | | before July 1, 2025". |
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| 47 | 47 | | SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 28-3-116(b), is amended by adding |
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| 48 | 48 | | the following new subdivision: |
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| 49 | 49 | | (3) For child sexual abuse that occurred on or after July 1, 2025, within the later |
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| 50 | 50 | | of: |
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| 51 | 51 | | (A) Thirty (30) years from the date the person becomes eighteen (18) |
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| 52 | 52 | | years of age; or |
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| 53 | 53 | | (B) If the injury or illness was not discovered at the time of the abuse, |
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| 54 | 54 | | within three (3) years from the time of discovery of the abuse by the injured |
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| 55 | 55 | | person. |
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| 56 | 56 | | SECTION 5. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it. |
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