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.