Bill Text: MI SB0944 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public employees and officers; other; residency requirement for certain public employees to reside in city of employment when population is greater than 500,000; permit certain cities to establish. Amends sec. 2 of 1999 PA 212 (MCL 15.602).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-15 - Referred To Committee On Reforms, Restructuring And Reinventing [SB0944 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SB0944-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 944

 

 

May 15, 2014, Introduced by Senator HOOD and referred to the Committee on Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1999 PA 212, entitled

 

"An act to restrict certain governmental entities from requiring

individuals to reside within certain geographic areas or specified

distances or travel times from their place of employment as a

condition of employment or promotion,"

 

by amending section 2 (MCL 15.602).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 2. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), this

 

section, a public employer shall not require, by collective

 

bargaining agreement or otherwise, that a person reside within a

 

specified geographic area or within a specified distance or travel

 

time from his or her place of employment as a condition of

 

employment or promotion by the public employer.

 

     (2) Subsection (1) does not prohibit a public employer from

 

requiring, by collective bargaining agreement or otherwise, that a

 

person reside within a specified distance from the nearest boundary

 

of the public employer. However, the specified distance shall be 20

 

miles or another specified distance greater than 20 miles.

 

     (3) A requirement described in subsection (2) does not apply

 

to a person if the person is married and both of the following

 

conditions are met:

 

     (a) The person's spouse is employed by another public

 

employer.

 

     (b) The person's spouse is subject to a condition of

 

employment or promotion that, if not for this section, would

 

require him or her to reside a distance of less than 20 miles from

 

the nearest boundary of the public employer.

 

     (4) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person is a volunteer

 

or paid on-call firefighter, an elected official, or an unpaid

 

appointed official.

 

     (5) Subsection (1) does not apply to a city with a population

 

over 500,000.