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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 97B.41, subsection 8, paragraph b, 1 2 subparagraph (6), Code 1997, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 (6) Employees hired for temporary employment of less than 1 4 six months or one thousand forty hours in a calendar year. An 1 5 employee who works for an employer for six or more months in a 1 6 calendar year or who works for an employer for more than one 1 7 thousand forty hours in a calendar year is not a temporary 1 8 employee under this subparagraph.Adjunct instructors are1 9temporary employees for the purposes of this chapter. As used1 10in this section, unless the context otherwise requires,1 11"adjunct instructors" means instructors employed by a1 12community college or a university governed by the state board1 13of regents without a continuing contract, whose teaching load1 14does not exceed one-half time for two full semesters or three1 15full quarters per calendar year.1 16 Sec. 2. Section 97B.41, subsection 8, paragraph b, Code 1 17 1997, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph: 1 18 NEW SUBPARAGRAPH. (6A) Adjunct instructors unless an 1 19 adjunct instructor elects by filing an application with the 1 20 department to be covered under this chapter. As used in this 1 21 section, unless the context otherwise requires, "adjunct 1 22 instructors" means instructors employed by a community college 1 23 or a university governed by the state board of regents without 1 24 a continuing contract, whose teaching load does not exceed 1 25 one-half time for two full semesters or three full quarters 1 26 per calendar year. 1 27 Sec. 3. IOWA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM – 1 28 ADJUNCT INSTRUCTORS – OPTIONAL COVERAGE – PURCHASE OF 1 29 SERVICE CREDIT. 1 30 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 97B.41 (Code 1 31 1997) or 97B.42A (Code 1997) to the contrary, an adjunct 1 32 instructor as defined in section 97B.41 who is employed as an 1 33 adjunct instructor as of July 1, 1998, may elect to be covered 1 34 under the Iowa public employees' retirement system if the 1 35 person files an application with appropriate documentation 2 1 with the department of personnel to elect coverage on or 2 2 before July 1, 1999. 2 3 2. An adjunct instructor who elects to be covered under 2 4 the Iowa public employees' retirement system by July 1, 1999, 2 5 pursuant to this section may purchase service credit as 2 6 provided in this subsection. A person may purchase credit, 2 7 using the procedure prescribed in section 97B.73, for one or 2 8 more quarters of service prior to July 1, 1998, in which the 2 9 person was employed as an adjunct instructor as described in 2 10 this subsection. 2 11 EXPLANATION 2 12 This bill provides that a newly hired adjunct instructor at 2 13 a community college or a regents university may elect to be 2 14 covered under the Iowa public employees' retirement system 2 15 pursuant to the requirements of Code section 97B.42A. The 2 16 bill also provides that adjunct instructors employed as of 2 17 July 1, 1998, may elect to be covered by filing an application 2 18 to be covered by July 1, 1999. The bill provides that a 2 19 currently employed adjunct instructor may purchase additional 2 20 service credit under IPERS for each quarter or quarters the 2 21 instructor was employed as an adjunct instructor prior to July 2 22 1, 1998. 2 23 LSB 3736HH 77 2 24 ec/jw/5
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