Bill Text: IA HF2267 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Enrolled
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) \5 A BILL FOR \1 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, citiesThe 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 criticalmunicipalcity employees may live from their place of employment.EachAn employeeresiding outside the statesubject 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 tobecome a resident of the statemeet the requirement as soon as practicablefollowing 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 -1-