{"id":548139,"date":"2010-04-30T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.77080"},"modified":"2010-04-30T12:21:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T16:21:39","slug":"backers-of-statute-of-limitations-bill-on-child-sex-abuse-are-ready-to-acknowledge-that-the-measure-wont-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548139","title":{"rendered":"Backers Of Statute Of Limitations Bill On Child Sex Abuse Are Ready To Acknowledge That The Measure Won&#8217;t Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in Friday&#8217;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 &#8212; but its supporters were not yet ready to concede that it was dead.<\/p>\n<p>However, that is expected to happen at the press conference at which three&nbsp;supporters of the bill are to appear: Rep.&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n<p>For a more complete account of the bill&#8217;s problems in a Thursday-night Capitol Watch post, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.courant.com\/capitol_watch\/2010\/04\/statute-of-limitations-bill-in.html\">click here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Courant, the bill to extend the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}