FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 158

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BARNES.

0776L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To repeal section 516.140, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the statute of limitations for injurious falsehood.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 516.140, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 516.140, to read as follows:

            516.140. Within two years: An action for libel, slander, injurious falsehood, assault, battery, false imprisonment, criminal conversation, malicious prosecution or actions brought under section 290.140. An action by an employee for the payment of unpaid minimum wages, unpaid overtime compensation or liquidated damages by reason of the nonpayment of minimum wages or overtime compensation, and for the recovery of any amount under and by virtue of the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and amendments thereto, such act being an act of Congress, shall be brought within two years after the cause accrued.

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