20250AB__275899INT INTRODUCED 2026-02-20 2025 AB INT Introduced by Assembly Member Addis LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Addis

An act to amend

Section 801.1 of the Penal Code, relating to criminal procedure. criminal procedure Criminal procedure: statute of limitations. Existing law requires, except in specified cases, that prosecution for an offense punishable by imprisonment in the state prison or pursuant to a specified statute be commenced within years after the commission of the offense. Existing law requires specified sex offenses that are committed when the victim is under years of age to be punished by imprisonment in the state prison or in a county jail for not more than one year.

Existing law requires specified felony sex offenses that are committed when the victim is under years of age and under certain circumstances, such as rape of a person with a mental disorder or disability or sodomy with force or fear, to be commenced by the victim’s 40th birthday when the crime was committed on or after January 1, 2015, or for which the previous statute of limitations has not run as of January 1, 2015. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions. MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 801.1 of the Penal Code is amended to read: 801.1. (a)

(1) Notwithstanding any other limitation of time described in this chapter, prosecution for a felony offense described in

Section 261, 286, 287, 288, 288.5, or 289, or former

Section 288a, or

Section 289.5, as enacted by

Chapter of the Statutes of relating to penetration by an unknown object, that is alleged to have been committed when the victim was under years of age, may be commenced before the victim’s 40th birthday. (2) Paragraph (1) shall only apply to crimes that were committed on or after January 1, 2015, or for which the statute of limitations that was in effect prior to January 1, 2015, has not run as of January 1, 2015.

(3) If the requirements in paragraph (1) are not met, the prosecuting agency may nevertheless provide victim assistance to the person, including support with pursuing restorative justice. (

b) Notwithstanding any other limitation of time described in this chapter, if either subdivision (

a) of this

section or subdivision (

b) of

Section does not apply, prosecution for a felony offense described in subdivision (

c) of

Section shall be commenced within years after commission of the offense.