H.B. No. 2069 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the disannexation of certain land by a municipality. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 43, Local Government Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 43.147 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 43.147. WIDTH REQUIREMENT FOR DISANNEXATION. (a) A 1-7 municipality disannexing a road or highway shall also disannex a 1-8 strip of area that is equal in size to the minimum area that the 1-9 municipality is required to annex in order to comply with the width 1-10 requirements of Section 43.054 unless such disannexation is 1-11 undertaken with the mutual agreement of the county government and 1-12 the municipality. 1-13 (b) The strip of area to be disannexed must: 1-14 (1) be adjacent to either side of the road or highway; 1-15 and 1-16 (2) follow the course of the road or highway. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-18 applies only to an area that is disannexed on or after the 1-19 effective date of this Act. A disannexation occurring before the 1-20 effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed 1-21 immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is 1-22 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.