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.