Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 56B.052 · Subchapter B. APPLICATION AND REVIEW
PERIOD FOR FILING APPLICATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as otherwise provided by this article, a claimant or victim must file an application not later than the third anniversary of the date of the criminally injurious conduct.
(b) The attorney general may extend the time for filing for good cause shown by the claimant or victim.
(c) If the victim is a child, the application must be filed not later than the third anniversary of the date the claimant or victim is made aware of the offense, but not after the child attains 21 years of age.
(d) If a claimant or victim presents medically documented evidence of a physical or mental incapacity that was incurred by the claimant or victim as a result of the criminally injurious conduct and that reasonably prevented the claimant or victim from filing the application within the limitations period under Subsection (a), the period of the incapacity is not included.
(e) For a claim that is based on criminally injurious conduct in violation of Chapter 19, Penal Code, the claimant must file an application not later than the third anniversary of the date the identity of the victim is established by a law enforcement agency.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 469 (H.B. 4173), Sec. 1.06, eff. January 1, 2021.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.56B.htm
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Code of Criminal Procedure
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 56B.057APPROVAL OF APPLICATION.Printed as Articles 56B.051 and 56B.052
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 56B.105COMPENSATION FOR CERTAIN CRIMINALLY INJURIOUS CONDUCT PROHIBITED.Printed as Article 56B.052(e)
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 56B.264APPLICATION OF OTHER LAW.Printed as Article 56B.052
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