By Pickett H.B. No. 2026 75R4940 JMC-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the prosecution of organized criminal activity. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 71.04, Penal Code, is amended by adding 1-5 Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-6 (c) Notwithstanding Article 38.14, Code of Criminal 1-7 Procedure, a person may be convicted of an offense under Section 1-8 71.02 on the uncorroborated testimony of a party to the offense. 1-9 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-10 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 1-11 Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before 1-12 the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs 1-13 before that date. 1-14 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this 1-15 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 1-16 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-17 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-18 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.