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Prevailing Wage
2000 Enactments and Vetoes

Legislation and Status	Summary
California AB1338 Passed	Relates to farm labor contractors: licenses. It authorizes the Labor Commissioner to establish and maintain a Farm Labor Contractor Special Enforcement Unit, as specified, to enforce provisions of law relating to farm workers, as provided, requires a farm labor contractor to deposit a surety bond in specified amounts based on the size of the person's payroll, as provided. Farm labor contractors no longer are permitted to give a deposit instead of a bond. It increases the licensing fee to $500. This designates the Farmworker Remedial Account as the separate account, makes an appropriation by increasing to $50 the amount of the licensing fee deposited into that account, provides that all other license fees be deposited in the State Treasury and credited to the General Fund. It requires that lists of licensees be submitted on a quarterly basis, requires contractors to furnish growers with additional payroll records reflecting the hours worked by employees and the wage paid, requires applicants to take only a written examination and answer 85% of the questions correctly in order to obtain a license, requires that licensees participate annually in 8 hours of continuing education courses approved by the Labor Commissioner, in consultation with specified public officers and agencies.
California AB2513 Passed	Prevailing wage requirements: violations. Whenever a contractor or subcontractor performing a public works project is found by the Labor Commissioner to be either in violation of certain provisions of law relating to payment of prevailing wages, with intent to defraud, or in willful violation of those provisions of law, the contractor or subcontractoror a firm, corporation, partnership, or association in which the contractor or subcontractor has any [OLD substantial] interest is ineligible to bid on or to receive a public works contract for specified periods of time.
California AB2783 Vetoed	Public works: prevailing wages. Provides that a certified copy of payroll records made available or furnished by an awarding body to a joint labor management committee established under the federal Labor Management Cooperation Act of 1978, shall only be marked or obliterated in a manner to prevent the disclosure of an individual's social security number. This bill would authorizes a joint labor management committee to maintain an action in any court of competent jurisdiction against an employer who fails to pay the prevailing rates of wages to its workers, as provided. The bill makes other technical changes.
Colorado HB1280 Passed	Concerns the determination of prevailing total compensation for state troopers employed by the Colorado State Patrol
Indiana HB1354 Passed	EDGE credits. Provides that the economic development for a growing economy (EDGE) board may award an EDGE tax credit for a project located in Hamilton County to a nonprofit organization that is a high growth company with high skilled jobs if the organization meets certain requirements and if all of the following conditions are satisfied: (1) the wages of at least 75% of the organization's Indiana workforce must be equal to at least 200% of the average county wage in the county where the project will be located; (2) the organization must make an investment of at least $50,000,000 in capital assets; (3) the affected political subdivision must provide substantial financial assistance to the project; (4) the incremental payroll attributable to the project must be at least $10,000,000 annually; (5) the organization agrees to pay the ad valorem property taxes on the organization's real and personal property that would otherwise be exempt under IC 6-1.1-10; (6) the organization does not receive any deductions from the assessed value of the organization's real and personal property under IC 6-1.1-12 or IC 6-1.1-12.1; and (7) the organization pays all of the organization's ad valorem property taxes to the taxing units in the taxing district in which the project is located.
Tennessee HB2221 Passed	Extends the termination date of the Prevailing Wage Commission until June 30, 2004.
Tennessee SB2559 Passed	Changes from certification to licensure the requirement for athletic trainers. Requires a college degree in athletic training and completion of certification requirements of the National Trainers' Association.

Source: NCSL
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	Justin Marks NCSL, Employment and Insurance 303-364-7700
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