Bill Text: IA HF2267 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Enrolled

Iowa House Bill 2267 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: A bill for an act related to civil service employees by providing cities with the authority to eliminate state residency requirements and modifying a city's authority to set distance or travel-based residency requirements. Effective 7-1-16.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-03-23 - Signed by Governor. H.J. 547. [HF2267 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF2267-Enrolled.html

House File 2267 - Enrolled




                              HOUSE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON LOCAL
                                  GOVERNMENT

                              (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 563)
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                                   A BILL FOR
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                                        House File 2267

                             AN ACT
 RELATED TO CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES BY PROVIDING CITIES WITH
    THE AUTHORITY TO ELIMINATE STATE RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS AND
    MODIFYING A CITY'S AUTHORITY TO SET DISTANCE OR TRAVEL=BASED
    RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 400.17, subsection 3, Code 2016, is
 amended to read as follows:
    3.  a.  Employees shall not be required to be a resident
 of the city in which they are employed, but they shall become
 a resident of the state within two years of such appointment
 or the date employment begins and shall remain a resident of
 the state during the remainder of employment. However, cities
  The state residency requirement under this paragraph "a" shall
 not apply to employees of a city that has adopted an ordinance
 to allow its employees to reside in another state and shall
 not apply to an employee of a city that later repeals such an
 ordinance if the employee resides in another state at the time
 of the repeal.
    b.  Cities may set a reasonable maximum distance outside
 of the corporate limits of the city, or a reasonable maximum
 travel time, that police officers, fire fighters, and other
 critical municipal city employees may live from their place
 of employment. Each An employee residing outside the state
  subject to a residency requirement based on distance or travel
 time who does not meet that residency requirement on the date
 of appointment or on the date employment begins shall take
 reasonable steps to become a resident of the state meet the
 requirement as soon as practicable following appointment or
 beginning of employment, and a city may provide the employee up
 to one year from the date of appointment or the date employment
 begins to meet the residency requirement.


                                                             
                               LINDA UPMEYER
                               Speaker of the House


                                                             
                               PAM JOCHUM
                               President of the Senate
    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
 is known as House File 2267, Eighty=sixth General Assembly.


                                                             
                               CARMINE BOAL
                               Chief Clerk of the House
 Approved                , 2016


                                                             
                               TERRY E. BRANSTAD
                               Governor

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