Senate File 47 - Introduced
SENATE FILE
BY DANIELSON
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act concerning residency requirements for city civil service
2 employees.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
4 TLSB 1889SS 83
5 ec/sc/5
PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 400.17, unnumbered paragraph 3, Code
1 2 2009, is amended to read as follows:
1 3 Employees shall not be required to be a resident of the
1 4 city in which they the employees are employed, but they shall
1 5 become a resident of the state at the time such appointment or
1 6 employment begins and shall remain a resident of the state
1 7 during employment. Cities may set reasonable maximum
1 8 distances outside of the corporate limits of the city that
1 9 However, for police officers, fire fighters, and other
1 10 critical municipal employees may live, cities may set a
1 11 reasonable maximum travel time from where these employees may
1 12 live and their place of employment.
1 13 EXPLANATION
1 14 This bill strikes the requirement that city civil service
1 15 employees must reside within this state during their civil
1 16 service employment.
1 17 The bill also modifies the ability of cities to set limits
1 18 on where police officers, fire fighters, and other critical
1 19 municipal employees may live. The bill provides that cities
1 20 may set a reasonable maximum travel time from where these
1 21 employees may live and their place of employment. Current law
1 22 allows cities to restrict where these employees may live based
1 23 on reasonable maximum distances outside of the city limits.
1 24 LSB 1889SS 83
1 25 ec/sc/5