By: Gallegos S.B. No. 543 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to residency requirements and to response time to civil 1-2 emergencies for certain municipal employees. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 150.021, Local Government 1-5 Code, is 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 may not 1-10 require the employee, in responding to a notification of a civil 1-11 emergency, to come within the municipal limits in less time than 1-12 traveling at posted speed limits and obeying all traffic 1-13 regulations would require. The standards may not be imposed 1-14 retroactively on any person in the employ of the municipality at 1-15 the time the standards are adopted. 1-16 SECTION 2. Section 150.021, Local Government Code, is 1-17 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-18 (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection (c), the 1-19 governing body of a municipality may designate certain employees 1-20 who, because of their duty assignments, must come within the city 1-21 to respond to a civil emergency within a reasonable amount of time 1-22 as established by the governing body. The designations may not be 1-23 imposed retroactively on any person in the employ of the 1-24 municipality at the time the designations are adopted. 2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.