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 under
Section 22.011(a)(2), Penal Code, or aggravated sexual assault under
Section 22.021(a)(1)(B), Penal Code;
(C) 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;
(D) continuous sexual abuse
of young child or children under Section 21.02, Penal Code;
(E) indecency with a child
under Section 21.11, Penal Code;
(F) 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;
(G) trafficking of persons
under Section 20A.02(a)(7) or (8), Penal Code; or
(H) continuous trafficking
of persons under Section 20A.03, Penal Code;
(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 elderly 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);
(F) arson;
(G) trafficking of persons
under Section 20A.02(a)(1), (2), (3), or (4), Penal Code; or
(H) compelling prostitution
under Section 43.05(a)(1), Penal Code;
(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;
(C) a felony violation under
Chapter 162, Tax Code;
(D) false statement to
obtain property or credit under Section 32.32, Penal Code;
(E) money laundering;
(F) credit card or debit
card abuse under Section 32.31, Penal Code;
(G) fraudulent use or
possession of identifying information under Section 32.51, Penal Code;
(H) Medicaid fraud under
Section 35A.02, Penal Code; or
(I) bigamy under Section
25.01, Penal Code, except as provided by Subdivision (6);
(4) five years from the date
of the commission of the offense:
(A) theft or robbery;
(B) [except as provided
by Subdivision (5), kidnapping or] burglary, except as provided by
Subdivision (5);
(B-1) kidnapping, except
as provided by Subdivision (5) or (6);
(C) injury to an elderly 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) if the investigation of
the offense shows that the victim is younger than 17 years of age at the
time the offense is committed, 20 years from the 18th birthday of the
victim of one of the following offenses:
(A) sexual performance by a
child under Section 43.25, Penal Code;
(B) aggravated kidnapping
under Section 20.04(a)(4), Penal Code, if the defendant committed the
offense with the intent to violate or abuse the victim sexually; or
(C) burglary under Section
30.02, Penal Code, if the offense is punishable under Subsection (d) of
that section and the defendant committed the offense with the intent to
commit an offense described by Subdivision (1)(B) or (D) of this article or
Paragraph (B) of this subdivision;
(6) ten years from the 18th
birthday of the victim of the offense:
(A) trafficking of persons
under Section 20A.02(a)(5) or (6), Penal Code;
(B) injury to a child under
Section 22.04, Penal Code;
(C) compelling prostitution
under Section 43.05(a)(2), Penal Code; [or]
(D) bigamy under Section
25.01, Penal Code, if the investigation of the offense shows that the
person, other than the legal spouse of the defendant, whom the defendant
marries or purports to marry or with whom the defendant lives under the
appearance of being married is younger than 18 years of age at the time the
offense is committed; or
(E) aggravated kidnapping
under Section 20.04(b-1), Penal Code; or
(7) three years from the
date of the commission of the offense: all other felonies.
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