STATE OF NEW YORK
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8457--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 17, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. GALLAGHER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor in accord-
ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to calculating the hours of
labor for adjunct professors
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 171 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 171. Hours of labor for adjunct professors. 1. Notwithstanding any
4 other provision of law to the contrary, an adjunct professor who is
5 employed at a college or university and such employment qualifies for
6 the federal public service loan forgiveness program pursuant to 20
7 U.S.C. 1087e(m) or any similar successor legislation, shall have his or
8 her hours of labor calculated at three and thirty-five hundredths hours
9 of labor per week for each hour of classroom time; provided, however
10 that nothing shall prohibit a college or university from calculating
11 more hours of labor than is provided for in this section.
12 2. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of educa-
13 tion, shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the
14 provisions of this section.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
16 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
17 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
18 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or before
19 such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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