CALIFORNIA
Press-Enterprise
AUGUST 21, 2013 BY DAVID OLSON
As my colleague Jim Miller from the Press-Enterprise Sacramento bureau reported, the Assembly appropriations committee today approved a bill temporarily lifting the statute of limitations for some older cases of alleged sexual abuse.
The 11-3 vote came a week after the bill failed to muster enough votes in the same panel. Several legislators – including Assemblyman Eric Linder, a Corona Republican – who had abstained Aug. 14 voted in favor the measure today.
The California Catholic Conference, which represents the state’s dioceses, is lobbying against the bill, as are the YMCA and private athletic, school and university associations. They say the bill unfairly excludes public institutions – and victims abused by public-school teachers and other public employees – from its coverage.
Bishop Gerald Barnes, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino, is continuing to contact Inland legislators to urge them to vote against the bill, diocesan spokesman John Andrews said.
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