Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 56B.053 · Subchapter B. APPLICATION AND REVIEW
REPORTING OF OFFENSE REQUIRED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as otherwise provided by this article, a claimant or victim may not file an application unless the victim reports the criminally injurious conduct to the appropriate state or local public safety or law enforcement agency within a reasonable period, but not so late as to interfere with or hamper the investigation and prosecution of the offense after the criminally injurious conduct is committed.
(b) The attorney general may extend the time for reporting the criminally injurious conduct if the attorney general determines that the extension is justified by extraordinary circumstances.
(c) Subsection (a) does not apply if the victim is a child.
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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