Bill Text: NJ S3626 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes minimum student to employee ratio for calculating State support for employee fringe benefit costs at four-year public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-09-19 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee [S3626 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-S3626-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JOSEPH P. CRYAN
District 20 (Union)
SYNOPSIS
Establishes minimum student to employee ratio for calculating State support for employee fringe benefit costs at four-year public institutions of higher education.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning fringe benefit costs at four-year public institutions of higher education and supplementing chapter 62 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury shall, when determining a four-year public institution of higher education's number of State-funded full-time employee positions for which the State pays fringe benefit costs, ensure that the number of State-funded full-time positions does not exceed a ratio of nine full-time equivalent enrolled students for every one full-time employee position.
b. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the director from using, for any one four-year public institution of higher education, a ratio of full-time employee positions to full-time equivalent enrolled students that is less than nine-to-one when determining the number of State-funded full-time employee positions. The number of State-funded full-time employee positions at any one four-year public institution of higher education shall not exceed the number of employees at the institution.
c. As used in this section, "State-funded full-time employee positions" means the number of positions for which the State pays the cost of fringe benefits on behalf of a four-year public institution of higher education.
2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the first full academic year beginning after the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill establishes a minimum student to employee ratio for calculating State support for employee fringe benefit costs at four-year public institutions of higher education.
The bill directs the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury, when determining a four-year public institution of higher education's number of State-funded full-time employee positions for which the State pays fringe benefit costs, to ensure that the number of State-funded full-time positions does not exceed a ratio of nine full-time equivalent enrolled students for every one full-time employee position.
The bill further provides that nothing in the bill's provisions is to be construed to prohibit the director from using, for any one four-year public institution of higher education, a ratio of full-time employee positions to full-time equivalent enrolled students that is less than nine-to-one when determining the number of State-funded full-time employee positions. The number of State-funded full-time employee positions at any one four-year public institution of higher education is not to exceed the number of employees at the institution.
