By: Barrientos S.B. No. 698 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the statute of limitations for the offense of securing 1-2 execution of a document by deception. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Article 12.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 Art. 12.01. Felonies. Except as provided in Article 12.03, 1-7 felony indictments may be presented within these limits, and not 1-8 afterward: 1-9 (1) no limitation: murder and manslaughter; 1-10 (2) ten years from the date of the commission of the 1-11 offense: 1-12 (A) theft of any estate, real, personal or 1-13 mixed, by an executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, with 1-14 intent to defraud any creditor, heir, legatee, ward, distributee, 1-15 beneficiary or settlor of a trust interested in such estate; 1-16 (B) theft by a public servant of government 1-17 property over which he exercises control in his official capacity; 1-18 (C) forgery or the uttering, using or passing of 1-19 forged instruments; 1-20 (D) sexual assault under Section 22.011(a)(2) of 1-21 the Penal Code; indecency with a child; 1-22 (3) seven years from the date of the commission of the 1-23 offense: 1-24 (A) misapplication of fiduciary property or 2-1 property of a financial institution; 2-2 (B) securing execution of document by deception; 2-3 (4) five years from the date of the commission of the 2-4 offense: 2-5 (A) theft, burglary, robbery; 2-6 (B) arson; 2-7 (C) sexual assault, except as provided in 2-8 Subsection (2)(D) of this article; 2-9 (5) three years from the date of the commission of the 2-10 offense: all other felonies. 2-11 SECTION 2. Article 12.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, as 2-12 amended by this Act, does not apply to an offense if the 2-13 prosecution of that offense became barred by limitation before the 2-14 effective date of this Act. The prosecution of that offense 2-15 remains barred as though this Act had not taken effect. 2-16 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-17 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.