CO HB1154

Requires Colorado community colleges to maintain only one salary schedule and one incremental step increase schedule for all faculty, effective July 1, 2014, with the lowest step set at the average salary of regular full-time faculty as of September 1, 2013.

Defines full-time workload as no more than 30 annual credit hours of teaching or equivalent combination of teaching and nonteaching duties; faculty salary must be based on percentage of full-time workload, including employment benefits.

Mandates that salary increases and benefit packages be determined based on faculty workload at all state institutions of higher education, and makes salary schedules and benefit costs readily accessible to the public.

Requires community colleges to give preference to faculty based on seniority (measured by course hours taught) when class assignments are available, and permits nonteaching duties to be compensated at the same rate as teaching responsibilities.

Establishes that faculty may be dismissed or not recontracted for cause or reduction in force, with written notification of reasons and access to a fair, publicly accessible appeals process.