Bill Text: MI HB4873 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public employees and officers; other; residency requirement for new municipal employees; provide for. Amends sec. 2 of 1999 PA 212 (MCL 15.602).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-07-03 - Printed Bill Filed 06/21/2013 [HB4873 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4873-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4873

 

June 20, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Singh, Irwin, Driskell, Stanley, Robinson and Kivela and referred to the Committee on Local Government.

 

     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 this 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.

 

     (3) (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.

 

     (4) Subsection (1) does not prohibit a municipality from

 

conditioning the employment of an employee hired after the

 

effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection on

 

the employee's residing within the boundaries of the municipality

 

for up to 7 years after the date of employment.