SB 497 — Relating to: recognizing teaching hours for providing certain extension services of the University of Wisconsin System. (FE)

- 2020 LEGISLATURE LRBs0177/1LRB-4423/1 ARG:kjf SENATE SUBSTITUTEBILL AMENDMENT497 1,October TO10, SENATE2019 BILL- 497Introduced Januaryby 22,Senators 2020MARKLEIN, -ETROWSKI Offered, ESTIN, KAPENGA and O LSEN , cosponsored by SenatorRepresentatives MLOUDENBECK ARKLEIN, .NOVAK, BALLWEG , D ITTRICH, KITCHENS, K ULP, MURSAU , RAMTHUN , TAUCHEN , TRANEL , TUSLER, V ANDERM EER and W ITTKE.

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A N A CT to amendcreate 36.115 (5)(8) (b)(c) andof (c);the statutes;

and to create 36.115 (1) (b), 36.115 (8) (c) and (d), 36.65 (2) (dn) and 36.65 (6) (c) of the statutes;

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Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill requires the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System to monitorrecognize theas extensionteaching andhours outreachtime hoursspent ofby state specialists,specialists whichproviding thecertain billextension definesservices. as faculty or academic staff at UW-Platteville, UW-River Falls, UW-Stevens Point, or UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences with appointments partially or fully funded through the Division of Extension at UW-Madison in the field of applied agricultural research.

Under current law, the Board of Regents must develop and implement a plan that includes 1) policies for monitoring teaching workloads of faculty and instructional academic staff, including requirements for reporting the number of hours each spends teaching.teaching;

and 2) policies for rewarding faculty and instructional academic staff who teach more than a standard academic load.

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36.115 (1)(8) (c) of the statutes is renumberedcreated 36.115 (1) (intro.) and amended to read:

36.115 (1)(8) (intro.)(c) In1. this section, “chancellor" (a) “Chancellor” means the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

SECTIONIn 2.this paragraph, “state specialists” means state specialists who provide extension services in the field of applied agricultural research at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, or University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and who are faculty or instructional academic staff.

36.1152. (1) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

36.115The (1)plan (b)under “Statepar. specialists” means faculty or academic staff at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, University ofWisconsin-Stevens Point, or University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences with appointments partially or fully funded through the division of extension at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the field of applied agricultural research.

SECTION(a) 3.shall recognize as teaching hours, to be included in reports to the system administration under par.

36.115(a) (5)1. (b) and (c) of the statutes are amended to read:

36.115and (5)eligible (b)for Thereward board may not implement the personnel system developed under sub.par.

(2)(a) unless2., ittime hasspent beenby approvedstate byspecialists theteaching jointgraduate committeestudents onand employmentteaching relations.Wisconsin farmers.

ThisSECTION paragraph2.Nonstatutory doesprovisions. not apply to revisions made under sub.

(8)(1) (b)The orBoard (d).of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System shall revise the plan under s.

(c)36.115 The(8) chancellor(a), mayif notnecessary implementto thecomply personnelwith systems. developed under sub.

(3)36.115 unless(8) it(c), hasno beenlater approvedthan bythe first day of the joint4th committeemonth onbeginning employmentafter relations.the effective date of this subsection.

This paragraph does not apply to revisions made under sub.

(8) (b) or (d) SECTION 4.

36.115 (8) (c) and (d) of the statutes are created to read:

LRBs0177/1 - 2020 Legislature - 3 - ARG:kjf SECTION 4 36.115 (8) (c) No later than the first day of the 6th month beginning after the effective date of this paragraph ....

[LRB inserts date], the board shall develop and implement a plan that includes policies for monitoring extension and outreach workloads of state specialists, including requirements for individual state specialists to report their extension and outreach hours to the system administration.

(d) The board shall revise the personnel systems developed under subs.

(2) and (3) and the employment relations policies and practices established under sub.

(7) as necessary to ensure that the systems, policies, and practices are consistent with the plan required under par.

(c).

SECTION 5.

36.65 (2) (dn) of the statutes is created to read:

36.65 (2) (dn) Extension and outreach hours.

Aggregate data on extension and outreach hours of state specialists, as defined in s.

36.115 (1) (b).

SECTION 6.

36.65 (6) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

36.65(6) (c) The board shall publish on the accountability dashboard aggregate data on extension and outreach hours of state specialists, as defined in s.