Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By Williams H.B. No. 2233 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the time limits in which a felony indictment may be 1-3 presented for certain felonies. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 Article 12.01(4), Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (4) five years from the date of the commission of the 1-8 offense: 1-9 (A) theft, burglary, robbery; 1-10 (B) arson; 1-11 (C) sexual assault, except as provided in 1-12 Subsection (2)(D) of this article; 1-13 (D) aggravated kidnapping, kidnapping; 1-14 (E) aggravated assault; 1-15 (F) Injury to a child; 1-16 (G) Injury to an elderly person; 1-17 (H) Injury to a disabled person; 1-18 (I) Abandoning/endangering a child. 1-19 The change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense 1-20 committed on or after the effective date of this Act. For purposes 1-21 of this section, an offense is committed before the effective date 1-22 of this Act if any element of the offense occurs before the 1-23 effective date. 1-24 An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is 2-1 covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and 2-2 the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-3 This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-4 The importance of this legislation and the crowded condition 2-5 of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and an 2-6 imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring 2-7 bills to be read on three several days in each house be suspended, 2-8 and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect 2-9 and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.