1-1  By:  Gallegos                                          S.B. No. 543
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 13, 1995; February 14, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; March 30, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 1; March 30, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to residency requirements for municipal employees.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 150.021, Local Government
   1-11  Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-12        (c)  The governing body of a municipality may prescribe
   1-13  reasonable standards with respect to the time within which
   1-14  municipal employees who reside outside the municipal limits must
   1-15  respond to a civil emergency.  If a standard is adopted, it may not
   1-16  require the employee, in responding to the civil emergency, to come
   1-17  within the municipal limits within one hour or earlier after notice
   1-18  of the emergency, if the employee is travelling at posted speed
   1-19  limits and is obeying all traffic regulations.  The standards may
   1-20  not be imposed retroactively on any person in the employ of the
   1-21  municipality at the time the standards are adopted.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-25  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-26  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-27  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-28  passage, and it is so enacted.
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