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                         SENATE BILL 6582

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By Senators Kohl, Bauer, Spanel, McAuliffe, Winsley, Rinehart and Smith

Read first time 01/18/96.  Referred to Committee on Higher Education.

Reducing financial disparities between part-time and full-time faculty at community and technical colleges.

    AN ACT Relating to higher education; creating new sections; making an appropriation; and providing an expiration date.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The legislature finds that part-time faculty at the community and technical colleges have an essential role in providing students with an excellent and affordable education.  The legislature also finds that the salary disparities between full-time and part-time faculty at community colleges and technical colleges are excessive and inequitable.  Over the next three biennia, the legislature intends to provide funding for bringing part-time faculty salaries into parity with salaries of full-time faculty.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  (1) A task force is created to devise an equitable and mutually agreeable method and time table for increasing part-time faculty salaries up to parity with full-time faculty salaries.

    (2) The task force shall be composed of:

    (a) One representative of the governor's office;

    (b) Four legislators, one from each of the largest caucuses in the senate and the house of representatives;

    (c) One full-time and one part-time representative from each of the two faculty bargaining organizations; and

    (d) Two representatives from the state board for community and technical colleges.

    (3) The task force shall report its recommendations to appropriate committees of the legislature by December 15, 1996.

    (4) This section expires December 31, 1996.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  The sum of three million seven hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1995, from the general fund to the state board for community and technical colleges solely as the first installment to eliminate the disparities between the salaries of full-time and part-time faculty at community and technical colleges.  The state board for community and technical colleges shall seek input from faculty bargaining organizations on disbursing this appropriation.

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