Relating to: residency requirements for certain employees of a local governmental unit. (FE)
This bill allows local governments to require that certain top administrative employees live within their jurisdiction. It specifically permits police and fire departments to set residency rules for their chiefs, cities and villages to apply them to administrators, counties without elected executives to apply them to county administrators, and school boards to apply them to school district administrators. Additionally, cities and villages that have or are electing a city manager may require that manager to live locally. The changes take effect only for individuals hired after the bill becomes law, meaning existing employees are not affected.
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Mar 2026
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Introduced Mar 19, 2026
Last action Apr 8, 2026
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Introduced by Representatives Anderson, Brown, Clancy, Emerson, Palmeri, Sinicki and Udell;
cosponsored by Senators Spreitzer, Carpenter, Larson and Roys
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