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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6723

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Senators Jacobsen, Wood, Kohl, Patterson, Thibaudeau, Brown, Fraser, Prentice, Goings, Snyder and Rasmussen)

Read first time 02/06/98.

Requiring prorated compensation and benefits for part-time community and technical college employees.

    AN ACT Relating to part-time employees of community and technical colleges; adding a new section to chapter 28B.50 RCW; and creating a new section.

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, retirement benefits, and health care disparities between full-time and part-time faculty at many colleges are excessive and inequitable.  Therefore, it is the intent of the legislature that part-time faculty employed in public community and technical colleges receive equal compensation for equal work when compared to full-time faculty.  Equal compensation for equal work should include prorated compensation for salary, retirement benefits, and health care benefits.

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

    (1) This section applies to part-time faculty of public community and technical colleges.

    (2) Part-time faculty under this section shall be paid a pro rata share of the salary paid to full-time faculty based on the full-time faculty salary schedule of the college district where the part-time faculty member is employed.

    (3) Part-time faculty shall be eligible for a pro rata share of retirement benefits from the state board for community and technical colleges.

    (4) Part-time faculty under this section who are employed for less than fifty percent of a full-time equivalent position as described in RCW 28B.50.489 shall receive compensation in lieu of health benefits equivalent to the pro rata share of the cost to the state for individual health benefits.  The amount to be prorated shall be based on the average premium for health care for a full-time faculty member.

    (5) Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this section.

    (a) A "pro rata share" means a percentage of a full-time academic workload as defined in RCW 28B.50.489(1).

    (b) "Part-time faculty" means nontenured instructors employed by public community or technical college districts for less than one hundred percent of a full-time academic workload as defined in RCW 28B.50.489(1).

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