HARRISBURG—Rep. Mark Rozzi stormed out of the
committee room Tuesday after the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to
strip a retroactivity provision he had advocated from a bill to extend
the statute of limitations for lawsuits in child sex abuse cases.
Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati,
R-Jefferson County, introduced an amendment that removed the Rozzi's
provision, which would have allowed victims older than 30 for whom the
statute of limitations has expired to file lawsuits until age 50. The
provision was part of a bill approved by the House and pushed by Rozzi,
who says he was raped by a priest as a teenager.