By Culberson                                    H.B. No. 3362

      75R7964 GWK-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the statute of limitations for the offense of

 1-3     intoxication manslaughter.

 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, and

1-11     intoxication manslaughter;

1-12                 (2)  ten years from the date of the commission of the

1-13     offense:

1-14                       (A)  theft of any estate, real, personal or

1-15     mixed, by an executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, with

1-16     intent to defraud any creditor, heir, legatee, ward, distributee,

1-17     beneficiary or settlor of a trust interested in such estate;

1-18                       (B)  theft by a public servant of government

1-19     property over which he exercises control in his official capacity;

1-20                       (C)  forgery or the uttering, using or passing of

1-21     forged instruments;

1-22                       (D)  sexual assault under  Section 22.011(a)(2)

1-23     of the Penal Code;  indecency with a child;

1-24                 (3)  seven years from the date of the commission of the

 2-1     offense:

 2-2                       (A)  misapplication of fiduciary property or

 2-3     property of a financial institution;

 2-4                       (B)  securing execution of document by deception;

 2-5                 (4)  five years from the date of the commission of the

 2-6     offense:

 2-7                       (A)  theft, burglary, robbery;

 2-8                       (B)  arson;

 2-9                       (C)  sexual assault, except as provided in

2-10     Subsection (2)(D) of this article;

2-11                 (5)  three years from the date of the commission of the

2-12     offense:  all other felonies.

2-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-19     passage, and it is so enacted.