H.B. No. 3809
AN ACT
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 [15] years after the day the cause of action accrues if the
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