WICHITA, Kansas, Feb. 8, 2007 - A Wichita woman is in a race against time to push a bill on clergy sexual abuse through the Kansas Legislature.

Peggy Warren is contacting everyone she knows to encourage the Federal and State Affairs Committee to hear House Bill 2206.

"It is so important to me and my family because of the devastation a priest did to my family," Peggy, sexual assault victim, said.

Peggy claims a priest in the Wichita Catholic Diocese sexually assaulted her. But Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston said after performing a full investigation, her office found no crime was committed.

Peggy says there was never a full investigation.

"I never talked to the district attorney, a detective, never gave them a statement," Peggy said. "There was no full investigation. The only information she got was from the Wichita Diocese.

Now she's fighting back with House Bill 2206. It would add clergy to the list of professionals including law enforcement and social workers, who cannot engage in consensual sexual relations with those they counsel.

The bill defines clergy as "a currently ordained member of the clergy or religious authority of any religious denomination or society."

Rep. Nile Dillmore, who introduced the bill, is worried it won't be heard since the legislative committee is running out of time.

He says there are 27 bills before the committee and less than two weeks to hear them all.

Bishop Michael Jackels of the Wichita Diocese says he was unaware of the bill and didn't have enough information to comment.

He did issue this statement saying, "The Catholic Church is committed to doing all that is humanly possible to protect all people from harm, especially from the horrible sin and crime of sexual abuse."

Meanwhile Peggy Warren is hoping Kansas will join 17 other states that hold clergy accountable.