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