By Wilson                                       H.B. No. 2912

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to residency requirements for employees of certain

 1-3     municipalities.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 150.021, Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended by amending Subsection (a)  and adding Subsection (d) to

 1-7     read as follows:

 1-8           (a)  A municipality with a population of less than 1,600,000

 1-9     may not require residency within the municipal limits as a

1-10     condition of employment with the municipality.  A municipality may

1-11     require residency within the United States as a condition of

1-12     employment.

1-13           (d)  A municipality with a population of 1,600,000 or more

1-14     may not have a person in its employment unless the person resides

1-15     within the corporate limits of the municipality.

1-16           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act does not apply

1-17     to a person who, immediately before the effective date of this Act,

1-18     was in the employment of the municipality and resided outside the

1-19     corporate limits of the municipality.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.