HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s Legislature plowed through its final scheduled voting day of 2018 on Wednesday with no resolution to legislation responding to a state grand jury report accusing hundreds of Roman Catholic priests of sexually abusing children over decades.

Legislation is in the Senate, where the Republican majority has thus far opposed a provision recommended by the grand jury and backed by Attorney General Josh Shapiro, Gov. Tom Wolf, the House of Representatives, Senate Democratic leaders and victim advocates.

That provision would give now-adult victims of child sexual abuse a two-year reprieve from time limits in state law that otherwise bar them from suing perpetrators and institutions that covered it up.

It was one of four recommendations made by the grand jury in its Aug. 14 report. Republican senators met behind closed doors Wednesday before emerging, saying they were discussing a measure that would give victims a two-year window to sue still-surviving perpetrators, but not institutions, such as the Catholic Church.

Shapiro said that plan was unacceptable and would excuse the Catholic Church from being held accountable.

After a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman early Wednesday afternoon in the Capitol, Shapiro said he tried to persuade Corman that “there needs to be a window and that that window needs to apply to everybody, and that it can’t exempt the Catholic Church, the very institution that enabled this abuse.”

Current law bars lawsuits when a victim turns 30. Before 2002, state law required victims to sue within two years of being victimized.

The nearly 900-page state grand jury report said more than 300 Roman Catholic priests had abused at least 1,000 children over the past seven decades in six Pennsylvania dioceses.