Every year since 2005, Margaret M. Markey, a New York State assemblywoman, has introduced a bill to extend the statute of limitations for five more years, a modest increase; it would also create a one-year window for adults up to age 53 to bring charges against alleged abusers.
A bill to extend the statute of limitations in New York was voted down last year after hard lobbying from the Catholic Church, saying a one-year civil suit window would be financially devastating.
The legislation, which is also sponsored by Representative Steve Israel, a New York Democrat, and Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican, would also extend the statute of limitations on Holocaust-era claims in the United States for 10 years.
The state's Roman Catholic bishops have been somewhat distracted, too, having focused their lobbying energies this session on defeating a bill that would extend the statute of limitations for victims of sexual abuse to bring civil claims, and have appeared unprepared for the battle over marriage.
New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat seeking to extend the statute of limitations in the state, said current law protects abusers, particularly those who prey on children who may not address the issue before turning 23, as the law now requires.
Herring had reached an agreement with McDonnell's attorneys to extend the statute of limitations into this month, said a person familiar with its terms.
In California in 2009, a federal appeals court struck down a state law that sought to extend the statute of limitations in lawsuits filed there against museums and galleries by people who had art taken from them during the Holocaust.
The state Senate also approved a measure Monday that would extend the statute of limitations for prosecuting public bribery cases from three years after the occurrence of a bribe to three years after the bribe is discovered.
Filing an amended return does not extend the statute of limitations.
If you file an amended return, it does not extend the statute of limitations for your original return.
