Bill Text: IA SF355 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa Senate Bill 355 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to employee residency qualifications in cities with a civil service commission. (See SF 407.)

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-04 - Passed subcommittee. [SF355 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF355-Introduced.html

Senate File 355 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  GRONSTAL

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to employee residency qualifications in cities
  2    with a civil service commission.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 400.17, subsection 3, Code 2015, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    3.  a.  Employees shall not be required to be a resident
  1  4 of the city in which they are employed, but they shall become
  1  5 a resident of the state within two years of such appointment
  1  6 or the date employment begins and shall remain a resident of
  1  7 the state during the remainder of employment. However, cities
  1  8 may set a reasonable maximum distance outside of the corporate
  1  9 limits of the city, or a reasonable maximum travel time, that
  1 10 police officers, fire fighters, and other critical municipal
  1 11 employees may live from their place of employment. Each
  1 12 employee residing outside the state on the date of appointment
  1 13 or on the date employment begins shall take reasonable steps to
  1 14 become a resident of the state as soon as practicable following
  1 15 appointment or beginning of employment.
  1 16    b.  Cities shall establish a policy to provide individual
  1 17 exemptions from the requirements of this subsection due to
  1 18 individual hardship and upon a determination by the civil
  1 19 service commission that granting an individual exemption to a
  1 20 requesting employee is not contrary to the public interest. 
  1 21                           EXPLANATION
  1 22 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 23 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 24    This bill relates to employee residency qualifications in
  1 25 cities with a civil service commission.
  1 26    Current law prohibits cities operating with a civil service
  1 27 commission from requiring employees to reside in the city in
  1 28 which they are employed, but requires that such employees
  1 29 become residents of the state within two years of appointment
  1 30 or the date employment begins. Current law does, however,
  1 31 provide that cities may set a reasonable maximum distance
  1 32 outside of the corporate limits of the city, or a reasonable
  1 33 maximum travel time, that police officers, fire fighters,
  1 34 and other critical employees may live from their place of
  1 35 employment. Current law further requires that an employee
  2  1 hired from out of state take reasonable steps to become a
  2  2 resident of the state as soon as practicable.
  2  3    The bill requires that each city with a civil service
  2  4 commission establish a policy to provide individual exemptions
  2  5 from these provisions due to individual hardship and upon a
  2  6 determination by the civil service commission that granting an
  2  7 individual exemption is not contrary to the public interest.
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