HARRISBURG — Lawmakers have returned to the Pennsylvania Capitol but have yet to revisit legislation on child sexual abuse scandals since an October fight killed a bill that would have allowed long-ago victims to sue the Roman Catholic Church and other institutions.

The Legislature’s new two-year session began in earnest Monday, with little mention of legislation reflecting the state attorney general’s landmark grand jury report on child sexual abuse in Pennsylvania’s Catholic dioceses.

No votes are scheduled and talks are low-key as Pennsylvania’s dioceses begin opening temporary victim funds spurred by the grand jury report.

Continued deadlock in the Legislature raises the possibility that now-adult victims will have little option but to apply to a diocese compensation fund — and sign away their right to sue — even if lawmakers later approve legislation giving them another chance to sue.

John Delaney, who has told of his rape as a 12-year-old boy by a priest in the Philadelphia archdiocese, said several people he knows have received offers ranging from $180,000 to $375,000. Delaney, now 48, isn’t sure he would accept an offer if it means giving up the right to sue.

“It’s not about the money,” Delaney said. “It’s about holding people accountable.”

Several states have approved a window for time-barred victims to sue, and neighboring New York approved such a bill Monday.

For many victims in Pennsylvania state law ended their right to sue decades ago, when they turned 20.