S-5060

   Amend Senate File 2382 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 1 by inserting:
   <Section 1.  Section 614.1, subsection 12, Code 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   12.  Sexual abuse or sexual exploitation by a counselor, therapist, or school employee.  An action for damages for injury suffered as a result of sexual abuse, as defined in section 709.1, by a counselor, therapist, or school employee, as defined in section 709.15, or as a result of sexual exploitation by a counselor, therapist, or school employee shall be brought within five years of the date the victim was last treated by the counselor or therapist, or within five years of the date the victim was last enrolled in or attended the school, if the counselor, therapist, or school employee is twenty-seven years of age or older, may be commenced at any time after the commission of the offense.
   Sec. ___.  Section 614.1, Code 2020, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  12A.  Sexual abuse.  An action for damages for injury suffered as a result of sexual abuse in the first degree as defined in section 709.2, sexual abuse in the second degree as defined in section 709.3, or sexual abuse in the third degree as defined in section 709.4, committed against a child by a person who is twenty-seven years of age or older, may be commenced at any time after the commission of the offense.
   Sec. ___.  Section 614.8A, Code 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   614.8A  Damages for child sexual abuse —— time limitation.
   1.  An action for damages for injury suffered as a result of sexual abuse, except for sexual abuse in the first degree as defined in section 709.2, sexual abuse in the second degree as defined in section 709.3, or sexual abuse in the third degree as defined in section 709.4, which occurred when the injured person was a child, but not discovered until after the injured person is of the age of majority, shall be brought within four years from the time of discovery by the injured party of both the injury and the causal relationship between the injury and the sexual abuse.
   2.  An action for damages for injury suffered as a result of sexual abuse in the first degree as defined in section 709.2, sexual abuse in the second degree as defined in section 709.3, or sexual abuse in the third degree as defined in section 709.4 committed against a child by a person who is twenty-seven years of age or older may be commenced at any time after the commission of the offense.>
   2.  Title page, line 1, by striking <establishing> and inserting <relating to certain sexual offenses against minors, including>
   3.  Title page, line 2, by striking <age,> and inserting <age and statute of limitation periods for sexual abuse in the first, second, and third degree and sexual exploitation by a counselor, therapist, or school employee,>
   4.  By renumbering as necessary.

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JANET PETERSEN

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KEVIN KINNEY