First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 11-0331.01 Julie Pelegrin       HOUSE BILL 11-1057
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Fischer,  Kefalas
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Bacon, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Education
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning procedural requirements applicable to
            terminating the employment contracts of persons
            teaching on a nonregular basis at institutions of
            higher education.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.  If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            Under current law, a person who is employed by a state institution
       of higher education as an adjunct professor or contingent employee is an
       employee-at-will, and his or her employment contract may be terminated
       at any time.  Under the bill, if the institution of higher education
       terminates or refuses to renew the employee's contract, the institution
       must provide a written statement of the reasons for termination or
       nonrenewal, and the employee has access to any dispute procedures
       available under the institution's policies.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  24-19-104 (1.5), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH to read:
            24-19-104.  Terms of employment contracts - public inspection. 
       (1.5) (d)  Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of
       subsection (1) of this section, an individual who is engaged in
       classroom teaching on a nonregular basis under an employment
       contract or employment contract extension with a system of
       higher education or a campus of a state institution of higher
       education and who receives a notice of termination of or
       refusal to renew the employment contract shall receive a
       written statement of the reasons for termination of or refusal
       to renew the individual's employment contract and shall have
       access to any dispute procedures available under the policies of
       the system or institution of higher education.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date.  This act
       shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       10, 2011, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2011); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2012 and shall take effect on the date of the official
       declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.