Bill Text: TX HB3533 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to elimination of limitations periods for suits for personal injury arising from certain offenses against a child.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB3533 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3533-Introduced.html
By: Leach | H.B. No. 3533 |
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relating to elimination of limitations periods for suits for | ||
personal injury arising from certain offenses against a child. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 16.003(a), Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Sections 16.010, 16.0031, [ |
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16.0045, and 16.0046, a person must bring suit for trespass for | ||
injury to the estate or to the property of another, conversion of | ||
personal property, taking or detaining the personal property of | ||
another, personal injury, forcible entry and detainer, and forcible | ||
detainer not later than two years after the day the cause of action | ||
accrues. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 16.0045(c), Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) In an action for injury resulting in death arising as a | ||
result of conduct described by Subsection [ |
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action accrues on the death of the injured person. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 16.0045(a), Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
Code, is redesignated as Section 16.0046, Civil Practice and | ||
Remedies Code, and amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 16.0046. NO LIMITATIONS PERIOD. [ |
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arises as a result of conduct that violates: | ||
(1) Section 22.011(a)(2), Penal Code (sexual assault | ||
of a child); | ||
(2) Section 22.021(a)(1)(B), Penal Code (aggravated | ||
sexual assault of a child); | ||
(3) Section 21.02, Penal Code (continuous sexual abuse | ||
of young child or disabled individual); | ||
(4) Section 20A.02(a)(7)(A), (B), (C), (D), or (H) or | ||
Section 20A.02(a)(8), Penal Code, involving an activity described | ||
by Section 20A.02(a)(7)(A), (B), (C), (D), or (H) or sexual conduct | ||
with a child trafficked in the manner described by Section | ||
20A.02(a)(7), Penal Code (certain sexual trafficking of a child); | ||
(5) Section 43.05(a)(2), Penal Code (compelling | ||
prostitution by a child); or | ||
(6) Section 21.11, Penal Code (indecency with a | ||
child). | ||
SECTION 4. (a) The changes in law made by this Act apply | ||
only to a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |