H.B. No. 959
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the statute of limitations for the offense of injury to
  a child.
         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 an [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;
               (4)  five years from the date of the commission of the
  offense:
                     (A)  theft, burglary, robbery;
                     (B)  kidnapping;
                     (C)  injury to an [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
                     (C)  injury to a child under Section 22.04, 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.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 959 was passed by the House on April
  4, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 6, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 959 was passed by the Senate on May
  23, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor