Bill Text: MI SB0116 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public employees and officers; other; residency requirement for public employment; provide for cities with population greater than 500,000. Amends title & sec. 2 of 1999 PA 212 (MCL 15.602).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-07 - Referred To Committee On Local Government [SB0116 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0116-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 116

 

 

February 7, 2017, Introduced by Senators YOUNG, GREGORY and CONYERS 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 the title and section 2 (MCL 15.602).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

TITLE

 

     An act to restrict specify the conditions under which

 

residential location requirements may apply to employees of 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.

 

     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 must

 

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) Notwithstanding subsections (1) to (4), all employees of a

 

city with a population of 500,000 or more who are hired after

 

February 28, 2018 must be residents of that city, except that this

 

residency requirement does not apply to an employee whose spouse is

 

employed by a different public employer.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect February

28, 2018.