Digest: The Act would set new laws with respect to the rate that community colleges must pay part-time faculty. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).
[Digest: The Act tells community colleges how to decide the rate at which part-time faculty will be paid. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).]
Requires community colleges to pay part-time faculty [at the same rate, on a per-hour basis, as] a certain percentage of the total salary that the community college pays equally experienced full-time faculty [to prepare for and teach a course] who teach comparable courses.
Appropriates moneys to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for the purpose of paying for salary equity.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.