PENNSYLVANIA
Pocono Record
By Iain Oldman
PublicSource
Posted Jun. 12, 2016
When the Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee meets later this month to consider a bill that would extend the statute of limitations on some child sex abuse crimes, a portion of the Pennsylvania business community will be there to lobby against it.
Six of Pennsylvania’s largest business organizations are opposing House Bill 1947 for the precedent it sets in making changes to the statute of limitations, particularly on civil cases.
According to a PennLive story, the organizations lobbying against the bill are the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania; the Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania; the Pennsylvania Business Council; the Pennsylvania National Federation of Independent Businesses; the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association; and the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry.
In a joint letter to House lawmakers in March, the business coalition wrote: “Retroactively extending the statute of limitations is a dangerous precedent for any business that manufactures, sells, stores or transports any kind of product, as well as for any institution that is an insurer or creditor of any such business.”
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