By Hill H.B. No. 2069 74R4027 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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. 1-11 (b) The strip of area to be disannexed must: 1-12 (1) be adjacent to either side of the road or highway; 1-13 and 1-14 (2) follow the course of the road or highway. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-16 applies only to an area that is disannexed on or after the 1-17 effective date of this Act. A disannexation occurring before the 1-18 effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed 1-19 immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is 1-20 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.