By Duncan H.B. No. 1984 74R4398 CAG-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to residency requirements for municipal employees. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 150.021(c), Local Government Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (c) The governing body of a municipality may prescribe 1-7 reasonable standards with respect to the time within which 1-8 municipal employees who reside outside the municipal limits must 1-9 respond to a civil emergency. If a standard is adopted, it shall 1-10 require the employee, in responding to the civil emergency, to come 1-11 within the municipal limits within one hour or earlier after notice 1-12 of the emergency. The standards may not be imposed retroactively 1-13 on any person in the employ of the municipality at the time the 1-14 standards are adopted. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.