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AL HB319

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/28/2017

Primary Sponsor

Becky Nordgren

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Origin

House of Representatives

Regular Session 2017

AI Summary

  • Requires adjunct and part-time professors at public 2-year institutions (community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges, and trade schools) to receive compensation at no less than 50 percent of what full-time professors earn for teaching the same or similar courses in the same field of study at the same institution.

  • Applies to compensation beginning on the effective date of the act for all newly employed adjunct and part-time professors.

  • Prohibits dismissal or reduction of work hours or salary for current employees of 2-year public institutions of higher education as a result of this act.

  • Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor, or otherwise becoming law.

Legislative Description

Compensation, part-time and adjunct professors, 2-yr public instutitions of higher education, at a rate of at least 50 percent of a full-time professor, for teaching the same or similar courses at the same instutition

Postsecondary Education

Last Action

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Education Policy

2/28/2017

Committee Referrals

Education Policy2/28/2017

Full Bill Text

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