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.