Track

Status

Governing provision

No limitation — § 767.24(1)(a): an indictment may be found and filed at any time for “murder, conspiracy to commit murder, or solicitation to commit murder, or criminal sexual conduct in the first degree.” Subsections (1)(b) to (1)(d) add life-punishable offenses under the explosives, human trafficking and anti-terrorism chapters. 

FIFTEEN YEARS, OR AGE 42, for second and third degree criminal sexual conduct — § 767.24(4)(a): an indictment for a violation of § 750.520c or § 750.520d “may be found and filed within 15 years after the offense is committed or by the alleged victim’s forty-second birthday, whichever is later.” § 767.24(4)(b) adds a DNA route: where the evidence contains DNA from an unidentified individual, the indictment may be filed at any time, but once that individual is identified, within fifteen years of identification or by the victim’s forty-second birthday, whichever is later. 

TEN YEARS, OR AGE 21, for fourth degree criminal sexual conduct and child sexually abusive material — § 767.24(3)(a): an indictment for a violation of § 750.136, § 750.136a, § 750.145c, § 750.520e or § 750.520g “may be found and filed within 10 years after the offense is committed or by the alleged victim’s twenty-first birthday, whichever is later”, with a parallel DNA route in § 767.24(3)(b). Section 750.145c is child sexually abusive activity and material; § 750.520e is criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree; § 750.520g is assault with intent to commit criminal sexual conduct. 

Twenty-five years for human trafficking — § 767.24(2): an indictment for a violation or attempted violation of § 750.13 or §§ 750.462b to 750.462e may be found and filed within twenty-five years. “This subsection shall be known as ‘Theresa Flores’s Law’.” 

Everything else — § 767.24(10): “All other indictments may be found and filed within 6 years after the offense is committed.” § 767.24(11): any period during which the party charged did not usually and publicly reside in Michigan is excluded. 

The 2024 amendment does not reach back — § 767.24(13): “The changes made to the limitation periods under this section by the 2024 amendatory act that added this subsection apply to offenses committed on or after the effective date of the 2024 amendatory act that added this subsection and do not apply retroactively to an offense committed before that date.” Compare § 767.24(12), which provides that extension or tolling “applies to any of those violations for which the limitations period has not expired at the time the extension or tolling takes effect.” 

Why the status is “partly removed”: Michigan has removed the deadline for exactly one sexual offense — criminal sexual conduct in the first degree. Second and third degree criminal sexual conduct, which cover a great deal of child sexual abuse, expire fifteen years after the act or on the survivor’s forty-second birthday. Fourth degree criminal sexual conduct and child sexually abusive material expire ten years after the act or on the survivor’s twenty-first birthday — the earliest such cutoff in this dataset.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 767.24 — Michigan Legislature, official Michigan Compiled Laws

The period — § 600.5851b(1): “Notwithstanding sections 5805 and 5851, an individual who, while a minor, is the victim of criminal sexual conduct may commence an action to recover damages sustained because of the criminal sexual conduct at any time before whichever of the following is later: (a) The individual reaches the age of 28 years. (b) Three years after the date the individual discovers, or through the exercise of reasonable diligence should have discovered, both the individual’s injury and the causal relationship between the injury and the criminal sexual conduct.” 

No conviction is required — § 600.5851b(2): “it is not necessary that a criminal prosecution or other proceeding have been brought as a result of the conduct or, if a criminal prosecution or other proceeding was brought, that the prosecution or proceeding resulted in a conviction or adjudication.” 

It does not displace the general disability tolling — § 600.5851b(4): “This section does not limit an individual’s right to bring an action under section 5851.” 

Definitions — § 600.5851b(5): “adjudication” and “criminal sexual conduct” both take the meanings given in § 600.5805. 

The floor is the survivor’s twenty-eighth birthday, with a three-year discovery limb that can carry it further. That is shorter than most of the states in this review — Kansas runs to thirty-one, Massachusetts to fifty-three, Hawaii to fifty for post-2024 abuse. The discovery limb is what does the work in Michigan, and it is only three years long once triggered.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.5851b — Michigan Legislature, official Michigan Compiled Laws

The provision in full — § 600.5851b(3): “Regardless of any period of limitation under subsection (1) or sections 5805 or 5851, an individual who, while a minor, was the victim of criminal sexual conduct after December 31, 1996 but before 2 years before the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section may commence an action to recover damages sustained because of the criminal sexual conduct within 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section if the person alleged to have committed the criminal sexual conduct was convicted of criminal sexual conduct against any person under section 520b of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.520b, and the defendant admitted either of the following: (a) That the defendant was in a position of authority over the victim as the victim’s physician and used that authority to coerce the victim to submit. (b) That the defendant engaged in purported medical treatment or examination of the victim in a manner that is, or for purposes that are, medically recognized as unethical or unacceptable.” 

How narrow that is, condition by condition — the abuse had to have occurred after 31 December 1996 and more than two years before 12 June 2018; the abuser had to have been convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct; the abuser had to have admitted either that he was the victim’s physician and abused that authority, or that he did it under cover of purported medical treatment; and the action had to be filed within ninety days. 

There was a revival window and it has closed — Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.5851b gave a 90-day window in 2018. The tracker records Michigan revival as “None”, which is wrong: the provision is in the current statute, in the very section the tracker already cites for the civil track. 

Like Indiana’s and Iowa’s Boy Scouts provisions, this is a window written for one set of facts and described rather than named. Unlike them, it is not even confined to a bankruptcy — it is confined to survivors of a convicted physician who admitted abusing his position, given ninety days to file. Whether the tracker calls that a revival window at all is a fair question. What it should not do is call it nothing, because a survivor comparing Michigan against, say, Minnesota needs to know that Michigan did open a door and that it shut in September 2018.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.5851b — Michigan Legislature, official Michigan Compiled Laws (subsection (3) is the window)

no Michigan row.