SF 2153

1st Engrossment - 89th Legislature (2015 - 2016) Posted on 03/18/2016 08:50am

A bill for an act
relating to public safety; amending the statute of limitations; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2015 Supplement, section 628.26.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2015 Supplement, section 628.26, is amended to read:

628.26 LIMITATIONS.

(a) Indictments or complaints for any crime resulting in the death of the victim may
be found or made at any time after the death of the person killed.

(b) Indictments or complaints for a violation of section 609.25 may be found or
made at any time after the commission of the offense.

(c) Indictments or complaints for violation of section 609.282 may be found or made
at any time after the commission of the offense if the victim was under the age of 18 at
the time of the offense.

(d) Indictments or complaints for violation of section 609.282 where the victim
was 18 years of age or older at the time of the offense, or 609.42, subdivision 1, clause
(1) or (2), shall be found or made and filed in the proper court within six years after
the commission of the offense.

(e) Indictments or complaints for violation of sections 609.322 and 609.342 to
609.345, if the victim was under the age of 18 years at the time the offense was committed,
shall be found or made and filed in the proper court within the later of nine years after
the commission of the offense or three years after the offense was reported to law
enforcement authorities.

(f) Notwithstanding the limitations in paragraph (e), indictments or complaints for
violation of sections 609.322 and 609.342 to 609.344 may be found or made and filed
in the proper court at any time after commission of the offense, if physical evidence is
collected and preserved that is capable of being tested for its DNA characteristics. If
this evidence is not collected and preserved and the victim was 18 years old or older
at the time of the offense, the prosecution must be commenced within nine years after
the commission of the offense.

(g) Indictments or complaints for violation of sections 609.466 and 609.52,
subdivision 2, new text begin paragraph (a), new text end clause (3), item (iii), shall be found or made and filed in the
proper court within six years after the commission of the offense.

(h) Indictments or complaints for violation of section 609.2335, 609.52, subdivision
2, clause (3), items (i) and (ii), (4), (15), or (16), 609.631, or 609.821, where the value of
the property or services stolen is more than $35,000, shall be found or made and filed in
the proper court within five years after the commission of the offense.

(i) Except for violations relating to false material statements, representations or
omissions, indictments or complaints for violations of section 609.671 shall be found or
made and filed in the proper court within five years after the commission of the offense.

(j) Indictments or complaints for violation of sections 609.561 to 609.563, shall
be found or made and filed in the proper court within five years after the commission
of the offense.

(k) In all other cases, indictments or complaints shall be found or made and filed in
the proper court within three years after the commission of the offense.

(l) The limitations periods contained in this section shall exclude any period of time
during which the defendant was not an inhabitant of or usually resident within this state.

(m) The limitations periods contained in this section for an offense shall not include
any period during which the alleged offender participated under a written agreement in a
pretrial diversion program relating to that offense.

(n) The limitations periods contained in this section shall not include any period
of time during which physical evidence relating to the offense was undergoing DNA
analysis, as defined in section 299C.155, unless the defendant demonstrates that the
prosecuting or law enforcement agency purposefully delayed the DNA analysis process in
order to gain an unfair advantage.

new text begin (o) Indictments or complaints for violations of section 626.556, subdivision 6,
paragraph (a) or (b), involving a mandated report concerning physical abuse, sexual
abuse, or substantial child endangerment, shall be found or made and filed in the proper
court within the later of nine years after the person mandated to report fails to make
the required report, or within three years after the failure to make the required report is
discovered by law enforcement authorities. As used in this paragraph, "physical abuse"
and "sexual abuse" have the meanings given in section 626.556, subdivision 2, paragraphs
(k) and (n). "Substantial child endangerment" has the meaning given in section 626.556,
subdivision 2, paragraph (o), clauses (4) to (9), (10), but only as clause (10) relates to
malicious punishment, and (11).
new text end

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective August 1, 2016, and applies to crimes
committed on or after that date and to crimes committed before that date if the limitations
period for the crime did not expire before August 1, 2016.
new text end