Authorizes state appropriations be adjusted to provide for consistent and predictable funding of academic employee salary increments for certain academic employees. This act provides for cost of living increases and incremental increases for part-time faculty at four-year institutions and faculty at community and technical colleges.   Official Text and Analysis.

To direct the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges to include funding to cover academic employee salary increments in its biennial budget request. Provides that the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges' salary increment request be based on 0.8 percent of the academic employees' salary plus the value of associated benefits.

To add language that suspends academic employee salary increments if there is a (1) reduction of allotments by the Governor, or (2) reduction by the legislature from one biennium to the next or within a biennium of appropriated funds. Removes the provision that in years when the Legislature does not provide funding for faculty salary increments, a board of trustees may use additional funds that exceed those provided by the Legislature.