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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1583

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Jacobsen, Carlson, Quall, Bray, Rayburn, Kessler, J. Kohl, Shin, Wood, Basich, Ogden, Brumsickle, King, Van Luven and L. Johnson

Read first time 02/03/93.  Referred to Committee on Higher Education.

Clarifying eligibility requirements for state-funded benefits for part-time academic employees of community and technical colleges.

          AN ACT Relating to higher education; and adding new sections to chapter 28B.50 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28B.50 RCW to read as follows:

          For the purposes of determining eligibility of state-funded benefits for part-time academic employees in community and technical colleges, the following definitions shall be used:

          (1) "Full-time academic work load" means the number of in-class teaching hours that will place an academic employee on the full-time salary schedule in a given discipline in a given college.

          (a) If full-time academic work load is defined in a contract adopted through the collective bargaining process, that definition shall prevail.

          (b) If full-time academic work load is not defined in a contract adopted through the collective bargaining process, then a full-time academic work load means the in-class teaching hours that are necessary to place an academic employee on the full-time salary scale in the same or a similar discipline at a college that has defined a full-time academic work load for academic employees in the same or a similar discipline.

          (2) "In-class teaching hours" means contact classroom and lab hours in which full or part-time academic employees are performing contractually assigned teaching duties.  The in-class teaching hours shall not include any duties performed in support of, or in addition to those contractually assigned in-class teaching hours.

          (3) "Academic employee" means any teacher, counselor, librarian, or department head who is employed by a college district, whether full or part-time, with the exception of the chief administrative officer of, and any administrator in, each college district.

          (4) "Part-time academic work load" means any percentage of a full-time academic work load for which the part-time academic employee is not paid on the full-time academic salary schedule.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 28B.50 RCW to read as follows:

          For the purposes of determining eligibility for receipt of state-funded benefits for part-time academic employees at community and technical colleges, the hours worked by part-time academic employees shall be reported by each institution as a pro rata percentage of the academic work load for full-time academic employees in a given discipline in a given institution.

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