If you received an email or letter indicating you qualify for self-pay adjunct group benefits, please review the information below.
The Adjunct Group Benefits Program (GBP) Enrollment Sessions will be held August 6 and August 7, 2024. At these sessions, HR Benefits staff will be available to assist you in completing your enrollment documents. Please be prepared to make benefits decisions during the Enrollment Session.
These sessions have been scheduled for the following dates/times:
- Tuesday, August 6 from 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
- Wednesday, August 7 from 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
To sign up to attend one of the Zoom sessions, click on the link: REGISTER HERE
You can view insurance options on the Employees Retirement System of Texas website.
Qualification
Due to legislative changes that occurred during the 83rd Legislature, adjunct faculty who meet the specific criteria outlined in the Texas Insurance Code, section 1551.1021 can elect to participate in the state’s Group Benefits Program.
For questions about qualification, please contact Alisol Martinez at 512-223-7800 or alisol.martinez@austincc.edu.
Texas Insurance Code, Section 1551.1021
Sec. 1551.1021. PARTICIPATION ELIGIBILITY: CERTAIN FACULTY OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION. (a) An adjunct faculty member at a public institution of higher education is eligible to participate in the group benefits program as an employee if the faculty member:
(1) receives compensation for services rendered to a public institution of higher education as an adjunct faculty member;
(2) was employed as a faculty member by the same public institution of higher education and taught at least one course in the regular fall and spring semester at the public institution of higher education in the preceding academic year; and
(3) is under contract or is scheduled to teach at least 12 semester credit hours in the academic year of coverage or, if the person is also employed by the public institution of higher education to perform nonteaching duties, is under contract or is scheduled to teach at least six semester credit hours in the academic year of coverage and has been approved by the public institution of higher education to participate in the group benefits program.
(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(3), an adjunct faculty member at a public institution of higher education who is a professional librarian is eligible to participate in the group benefits program as an employee if the faculty member receives compensation for services rendered to a public institution of higher education as an adjunct faculty member.
(b) From money appropriated from a fund other than the general revenue fund or from money available from local sources, a public institution of higher education may, for an adjunct faculty member eligible to receive benefits under this section, contribute:
(1) not more than 50 percent of the cost of basic coverage for the employee; and
(2) not more than 25 percent of the cost of dependent coverage.
(c) Subsection (b) does not prohibit a public institution of higher education from contributing, from money other than money appropriated from the general revenue fund, amounts that exceed the amount specified in Subsection (b) to provide coverage for a person employed by a public institution of higher education who meets the criteria for eligibility under Subsection (a).
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 366, Sec. 4.04, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 343 (H.B. 2127), Sec. 1, effective September 1, 2013.