Bill Text: TX HB3809 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the limitations period for personal injury claims that arise from certain offenses involving child sexual abuse.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB3809 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3809-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3809 |
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relating to the limitations period for personal injury claims that | ||
arise from certain offenses involving child sexual abuse. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 16.0045(a), Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A person must bring suit for personal injury not later | ||
than 30 [ |
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injury 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 children); | ||
(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 2. The change in law made by this Act applies 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 applicable to the cause of | ||
action immediately before the effective date of this Act has not | ||
expired before the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3809 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 3809 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3809 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |