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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.

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Joe Cryan (D)*,  John McKeon (D)*,  Britnee Timberlake (D), 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee (on 01/13/2026)

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