Bill Text: CT HB05280 | 2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Statute Of Limitations For Perjury.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-15 - Public Hearing 03/19 [HB05280 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2010-HB05280-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5280
February Session, 2010		LCO No. 1372
		*01372_______JUD*
Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Introduced by:
(JUD)

AN ACT CONCERNING THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR PERJURY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 54-193 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage and applicable to any offense committed on or after said date and to any offense committed prior to said date for which the statute of limitations in effect at the time of the commission of the offense had not yet expired as of said date):

(a) There shall be no limitation of time within which a person may be prosecuted for (1) a capital felony, a class A felony or a violation of section 53a-54d or 53a-169, or (2) a violation of section 53a-156 if the statement that forms the basis for such violation relates to the commission of an offense set forth in subdivision (1) of this subsection.

(b) No person may be prosecuted for any offense, [except a capital felony, a class A felony or a violation of section 53a-54d or 53a-169] other than an offense set forth in subsection (a) of this section, for which the punishment is or may be imprisonment in excess of one year, except within five years next after the offense has been committed.

(c) No person may be prosecuted for any [other] offense, [except a capital felony, a class A felony or a violation of section 53a-54d or 53a-169] other than an offense set forth in subsection (a) or (b) of this section, except within one year next after the offense has been committed.

[(c)] (d) If the person against whom an indictment, information or complaint for any of said offenses is brought has fled from and resided out of this state during the period so limited, it may be brought against such person at any time within such period, during which such person resides in this state, after the commission of the offense.

[(d)] (e) When any suit, indictment, information or complaint for any crime may be brought within any other time than is limited by this section, it shall be brought within such time.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage and applicable to any offense committed on or after said date and to any offense committed prior to said date for which the statute of limitations in effect at the time of the commission of the offense had not yet expired as of said date	54-193

Statement of Purpose:

To provide that there shall be no limitation of time within which a person may be prosecuted for perjury if the false statement related to the commission of a murder or other serious offense for which there is no statute of limitations.

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