The House Judiciary Committee's Wednesday hearing was the latest in what has been an unsuccessful battle to create a window in the state's civil statute of limitations to allow victims of childhood sexual abuse to file suit.
Politically, what is not in the current bills is also crucial. SB1 was originally passed by the Republican majority in the Senate with two further constitutional amendment referenda – one that would give the legislature power to kill regulations without the governor’s approval and another that would enact stricter voter identification requirements.
Republicans during the March 1 meeting predicted the move to gut the other two measures from SB1 would leave the matter dead on arrival when it returned to their Senate colleagues. Some Republicans also have voiced objections to the window legislation on its face. Rep. Paul Schemel, R-Franklin – the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee in the absence of Minority Chair Rob Kauffman, R-Franklin – acknowledged Wednesday that “I’ve been a vocal opponent” of the statute of limitations window.
Wednesday’s hearing panelists broadly rejected those arguments, given that coming forward about childhood sexual abuse is “different than disclosing victimhood in any other crime,” said Katie Shipp, managing partner for Marsh Law Firm, which works exclusively on sexual abuse cases.
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