FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to revise the definition of full-time equivalent to exclude graduate students employed by public postsecondary institutions for research or teaching.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. That subdivision (12) of § 2-14-2 be amended to read as follows:

            (12)    "Full-time equivalent" or "FTE," a number which designates staffing level where one full-time equivalent position is equal to the number of days, Monday through Friday, in a fiscal year, multiplied by eight hours per day. It excludes: paid overtime hours; hours paid to an employee assigned to a light duty position as approved by the commissioner of the Bureau of Personnel due to a temporary partial disability as defined in subdivision 62-1-1(8); hours paid for accumulated annual leave and sick leave upon employee termination; hours paid to patient employees of the institutions under the control of the Department of Human Services and the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs; hours paid to work-study students enrolled in postsecondary educational institutions or postsecondary students employed pursuant to chapter 3-6B; hours paid to students enrolled in and employed by postsecondary

educational institutions for research or teaching; and hours paid to members of boards and commissions pursuant to § 4-7-10.4. For purposes of salary computation a nine month or more per year full-time teaching or research faculty person, or the equivalent thereof, at the institutions under the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents shall be considered one full-time equivalent;