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Pa. House passes measure to allow voters to create a window for child sex abuse victims to go to court Updated Jan 27, 2021; Posted Jan 27, 2021 With House passage of a measure that proposes to lift expired statute of limitations on civil cases, Pennsylvania on Wednesday stepped closer to joining ranks of states that have overhauled child sex crime laws. The measure moves to the Senate for consideration. This file photo was taken in August 2018 during the announcement of the findings of the g...

Capitolwire HARRISBURG — A Senate committee moved quickly Monday to start the second round needed to pass a state constitutional amendment to open a two-year retroactive window for lawsuits by child abuse survivors. The Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to approve Senate Bill 8, which addresses fallout from a 2018 statewide grand jury report that examined decades of child sexual abuse and cover-ups in six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania. The proposed amendment provides for a two-year p...

Pa. lawmakers advance proposed constitutional changes to electing judges, limiting governor’s powers Updated Jan 13, 2021; Posted Jan 13, 2021 Pa. Rep. Russ Diamond, R-Lebanon County, spoke in favor of amending the states constitution to limit the governors disaster declaration powers as well as to change the way appellate court judges are elected in House committee meetings on Wednesday. Jan. 13, 2021 Screenshot from Pa. House website Facebook Share Pennsylvania voters could have the oppor...

Roots that have caused a ton of damage and theyre hard to let go of. >> are you angry? what do you feel? >> im incredibly angry. ive been fighting for legislation in pennsylvania for 2 1/2 years since i became public. 30 of the names are still redacted. we dont know who they are, where they are, which diocese, are they in pennsylvania? the senate leadership in pennsylvania refuses to bring mark rozzis bill to a vote. >> why? this is against the law. >> senator joe scarnati, senate pro tem of pen...

Any legal action, even documented legal action, credible legal action against these predators involved. but you and the people youre working with, youre trying to change that now. how can you do that? >> well, our next fight, which will start here in september, were supporting representative mark rozzi and his new bill he just put forth here to change the statute of limitations and actually abolish it. the key point to the whole piece of legislation is a look back window for those people who are...

Meets with victims. i appreciate that. i do. i want him to hear directly from the victims what the church did. but what i also want him to understand is, because of, you know, what the pennsylvania catholic conference is doing, they are not only just blocking victims of clergy abuse but they are also blocking nonvictims of the victims from noun claernlg ji abu -- nonclergy abuse. what the church is doing, theyre blocking everybody. that is just totally unfair. >> representative mark rozzi, we ap...