TO:	Honorable Joe Moody, Chair, House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
FROM:	Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB3025 by Vasut (Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offenses of aggravated kidnapping, kidnapping, and interference with child custody.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

The bill would remove the limitation on the period during which indictments may be presented for the offense of interference with child custody if the person takes or retains a child outside of the United States with the intent to deprive a person entitled to possession of or access to the child of that possession or access and without the permission of that person. The bill would increase the limitations period during which indictments may be presented for the offenses of kidnapping and aggravated kidnapping to 20 years after the 18th birthday of the victim if the victim was younger than 17 years of age at the time the offense was committed. The bill would establish the limitations period at 3 years after the date of the commission of such offenses if the victim was 17 years of age or older at the time the offense is committed. The bill would establish that, if conduct that constitutes certain state jail felony offenses of interference with child custody also constitutes a third degree felony offense of kidnapping, the actor may be prosecuted only for kidnapping.

Extending the limitations period for indictments to be presented may result in additional demands upon state and local correctional resources due to a possible increase in the number of individuals placed under supervision in the community or sentenced to a term of confinement.

In fiscal year 2022, there were 547 individuals arrested, 72 individuals placed on adult community supervision, 4 individuals placed on juvenile probation supervision, 122 individuals admitted to an adult state correctional institution, and no individuals admitted to a juvenile state correctional institution for the offense of kidnapping or aggravated kidnapping.