By: Giddings (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) H.B. No. 887
         (In the Senate - Received from the House March 26, 2007;
  April 3, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Criminal Justice; May 16, 2007, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 16, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the statute of limitations for the offenses of credit
  card or debit card abuse, false statement to obtain property or
  credit, and fraudulent use or possession of identifying
  information.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 12.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Art. 12.01.  FELONIES.  Except as provided in Article 12.03,
  felony indictments may be presented within these limits, and not
  afterward:
               (1)  no limitation:
                     (A)  murder and manslaughter;
                     (B)  sexual assault, if during the investigation
  of the offense biological matter is collected and subjected to
  forensic DNA testing and the testing results show that the matter
  does not match the victim or any other person whose identity is
  readily ascertained; or
                     (C)  an offense involving leaving the scene of an
  accident under Section 550.021, Transportation Code, if the
  accident resulted in the death of a person;
               (2)  ten years from the date of the commission of the
  offense:
                     (A)  theft of any estate, real, personal or mixed,
  by an executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, with intent to
  defraud any creditor, heir, legatee, ward, distributee,
  beneficiary or settlor of a trust interested in such estate;
                     (B)  theft by a public servant of government
  property over which he exercises control in his official capacity;
                     (C)  forgery or the uttering, using or passing of
  forged instruments;
                     (D)  injury to a child, elderly individual, or
  disabled individual punishable as a felony of the first degree
  under Section 22.04, Penal Code;
                     (E)  sexual assault, except as provided by
  Subdivision (1) or (5); or
                     (F)  arson;
               (3)  seven years from the date of the commission of the
  offense:
                     (A)  misapplication of fiduciary property or
  property of a financial institution;
                     (B)  securing execution of document by deception;
  [or]
                     (C)  a violation under Sections 162.403(22)-(39),
  Tax Code;
                     (D)  credit card or debit card abuse under Section
  32.31, Penal Code;
                     (E)  false statement to obtain property or credit
  under Section 32.32, Penal Code; or
                     (F)  fraudulent use or possession of identifying
  information under Section 32.51, Penal Code;
               (4)  five years from the date of the commission of the
  offense:
                     (A)  theft, burglary, robbery;
                     (B)  kidnapping;
                     (C)  injury to a child, elderly individual, or
  disabled individual that is not punishable as a felony of the first
  degree under Section 22.04, Penal Code;
                     (D)  abandoning or endangering a child; or
                     (E)  insurance fraud;
               (5)  ten years from the 18th birthday of the victim of
  the offense:
                     (A)  indecency with a child under Section
  21.11(a)(1) or (2), Penal Code; or
                     (B)  except as provided by Subdivision (1), sexual
  assault under Section 22.011(a)(2), Penal Code, or aggravated
  sexual assault under Section 22.021(a)(1)(B), Penal Code; or
               (6)  three years from the date of the commission of the
  offense: all other felonies.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Article
  12.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, does not apply to an offense if
  the prosecution of that offense became barred by limitation before
  the effective date of this Act. The prosecution of that offense
  remains barred as if this Act had not taken effect.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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