Advocates of a bill to give victims of child sexual abuse more time to file civil lawsuits plan a press conference Friday at 12:45 in the state Capitol complex to acknowledge that their legislation will not go forward this year, a high-ranking Capitol source said.
As reported in Friday’s Courant, the bill to extend the statute of limitations on such crimes as in severe trouble Thursday night for lack of support in both the state House of Representatives and Senate — but its supporters were not yet ready to concede that it was dead.
However, that is expected to happen at the press conference at which three supporters of the bill are to appear: Rep. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford; Sen. Mary Ann Handley, D-Manchester; and Rep. Michael Lawlor, D-East Haven, co-chairman of the legislative judiciary committee.
For a more complete account of the bill’s problems in a Thursday-night Capitol Watch post, click here.