By Barrientos S.B. No. 698 74R6118 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the statute of limitations for the offense of securing 1-3 execution of a document by deception. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 12.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 12.01. Felonies. Except as provided in Article 12.03, 1-8 felony indictments may be presented within these limits, and not 1-9 afterward: 1-10 (1) no limitation: murder and manslaughter; 1-11 (2) ten years from the date of the commission of the 1-12 offense: 1-13 (A) theft of any estate, real, personal or 1-14 mixed, by an executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, with 1-15 intent to defraud any creditor, heir, legatee, ward, distributee, 1-16 beneficiary or settlor of a trust interested in such estate; 1-17 (B) theft by a public servant of government 1-18 property over which he exercises control in his official capacity; 1-19 (C) forgery or the uttering, using or passing of 1-20 forged instruments; 1-21 (D) sexual assault under Section 22.011(a)(2) of 1-22 the Penal Code; indecency with a child; 1-23 (3) seven years from the date of the commission of the 1-24 offense: 2-1 (A) misapplication of fiduciary property or 2-2 property of a financial institution; 2-3 (B) securing execution of document by deception; 2-4 (4) five years from the date of the commission of the 2-5 offense: 2-6 (A) theft, burglary, robbery; 2-7 (B) arson; 2-8 (C) sexual assault, except as provided in 2-9 Subsection (2)(D) of this article; 2-10 (5) three years from the date of the commission of the 2-11 offense: all other felonies. 2-12 SECTION 2. Article 12.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, as 2-13 amended by this Act, does not apply to an offense if the 2-14 prosecution of that offense became barred by limitation before the 2-15 effective date of this Act. The prosecution of that offense 2-16 remains barred as though this Act had not taken effect. 2-17 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-18 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.