Arkansas Code Title 16. Practice, Procedure, and Courts § 16-118-118. Civil action for vulnerable victims of sexual abuse

(1) “Disability” means that a person was determined legally to have a disability or determined medically to have a disability by a medical or mental health provider at the time of the alleged wrongful conduct and was unable to give legal consent;

(2) “Minor” means a person under eighteen (18) years of age;

(3) “Sexual abuse” means the commission of one (1) or more of the following acts or offenses:

(4) “Sexual contact” means the same as defined in § 5-14-101;

(5) “Sexually explicit conduct” means the same as defined in § 5-27-302; and

(6) “Vulnerable victim” means a person who was either a person with a disability, a minor, or both at the time he or she was a victim of sexual abuse.

(b)(1) Notwithstanding any other statute of limitation or any other law that may be construed to reduce the statutory period set forth in this section, a vulnerable victim may bring a civil action against any party who committed sexual abuse against the vulnerable victim or whose tortious conduct caused the vulnerable victim to be a victim of sexual abuse.

(2) Notwithstanding any other statute of limitation or any other law that may be construed to reduce the statutory period set forth in this section, a civil action similar to a civil action described in subdivision (b)(1) of this section, including a cause of action arising before, on, or after July 28, 2021, that was barred or dismissed due to a statute of limitation is revived, and the civil action may be commenced not earlier than six (6) months after and not later than thirty (30) months after August 1, 2023.