By Wilson                                             H.B. No. 1528
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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.