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.