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Committee bars municipal residency mandates for full-time firefighters, sparking municipal-league opposition
CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE · April 4, 2023
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Summary
HB 10 67 would prohibit residency requirements for full-time paid fire departments; firefighter witnesses said the policy aids recruitment while the Municipal League's counsel opposed removing local preference for residents.
Representative Wade Andrews (House District 98) presented HB 10 67, saying the bill would prevent full‑time paid fire departments from imposing residency requirements while preserving a narrow set of exceptions for combination departments and take-home-vehicle rules. "You gotta live where you wanna live and work where you wanna work," Andrews told the…
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