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Committee hears testimony on expanding health coverage for contingent faculty; bill laid over
Summary
House File 1751 would expand access to health insurance for contingent faculty in Minnesota State colleges and universities. Dozens of contingent instructors and union representatives described precarious semester-to-semester eligibility and urged a pilot; the committee laid the bill over to gather survey data and evaluate fiscal impacts.
Representative Erin Hansen presented House File 1751 to the Higher Education Committee, explaining the measure would expand access to employer-sponsored health insurance for contingent (adjunct/temporary) faculty across the Minnesota State system. The bill’s sponsors described contingent faculty as a substantial portion of instruction at many campuses and framed the proposal as a two-year pilot to gather data and assess costs.
Jonathan Bone, representing the Inter Faculty Organization (IFO), told the committee the system relies increasingly on adjunct and contingent instructors and that the proposal was designed as a time-limited pilot to measure actual cost. "We designed this as a pilot program... the simple reality is that the vast majority of these people, even if they qualify, will…
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