By Wilson                                             H.B. No. 2678
         76R7531 CAG-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the employment by certain municipalities of persons who
 1-3     reside outside the corporate limits of the municipality.
 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 Subsections (d) and
 1-7     (e) to read as follows:
 1-8           (a)  A municipality with a population of less than 1.6
 1-9     million 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 1.6 million or more
1-14     may adopt an ordinance that requires a person employed by the
1-15     municipality who resides outside the corporate limits of the
1-16     municipality to agree to have deducted from the employee's
1-17     compensation an amount equal to the amount a municipality
1-18     determines is equal to  any extra costs the municipality incurs
1-19     because the employee does not reside within the municipality's
1-20     corporate limits. A municipality may employ a person who resides
1-21     outside the corporate limits of the municipality only if the person
1-22     agrees to the deduction described by this subsection.
1-23           (e)  A municipality receiving funds under Subsection (d) may
1-24     use those funds only to support the regional transit authority that
 2-1     serves the municipality.
 2-2           SECTION 2.   The change in law made by this Act does not
 2-3     apply to a person who, immediately before the effective date of
 2-4     this Act, was in the employment of the municipality and resided
 2-5     outside the corporate limits of the municipality.
 2-6           SECTION 3.   The importance of this legislation and the
 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.