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78R6752 AJA-D
By: Farrar H.B. No. 1907
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the statute of limitations for a suit for personal
injury arising out of sexual assault of a child.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 16.0045, Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection
(d) to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a [A] person must
bring suit for personal injury not later than five years after the
day the cause of action accrues if the injury arises as a result of
conduct that violates:
(1) Section 22.011, Penal Code (sexual assault); or
(2) Section 22.021, Penal Code (aggravated sexual
assault).
(d) A person who is under a legal disability under Section
16.001(a) at the time a cause of action for personal injury
described by Subsection (a) accrues must bring suit for the
personal injury not later than 10 years after the earliest date on
which the person is no longer under that legal disability.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of
this Act or a cause of action that accrued before the effective date
of this Act if the limitations period for that cause of action under
the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this
Act has not expired on the effective date of this Act. A cause of
action that accrues before the effective date of this Act for which
the limitations period under the law as it existed immediately
before the effective date of this Act has expired is governed by the
law in effect immediately before that date, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.