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                         SENATE BILL 6583

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

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

Read first time 01/18/96.  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-mandated insurance and retirement 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 a full-time instructor must teach to fulfill his or her employment obligations in a given discipline in a given college.  If full-time academic work load is defined in a contract adopted through the collective bargaining process, that definition shall prevail.

    (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" in a community or technical college 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-mandated benefits for part-time academic employees at community and technical colleges, each institution shall report to the appropriate agencies the hours worked by part-time academic employees as a ratio of the part-time academic work load to the full-time academic work load in a given discipline in a given institution.

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