Legislation to remove the statute of limitations on second and third-degree criminal sexual conduct in Michigan is scheduled for a Committee hearing in the state House tomorrow [TUES].
The bills would also give survivors more time to sue… and remove governmental immunity in certain cases when state workers failed to intervene.
Democratic Representative Julie Brixie says ending immunity is important for giving survivors access to the justice system.
Representative Brixie said, "What other states have seen, is that when the organizations are held accountable, that’s when the real changes in the organizational structures occur that prevent this from happening over and over again."
Overall… there are nine bills in the package aimed at supporting sexual assault survivors.
That’s on top of over a dozen other bills making their way through the Legislature to prevent and catch sex abuse.