Prevailing Wage Legislation

STATE/BILL NUMBER

SUMMARY

LAST ACTION

CALIFORNIA

A.B. 1418

Requires the Contractors' State License Board to disclose information regarding a licensee's willful or deliberate violation of the Labor Code. Requires, in addition to the maximum $50 penalty per day for violations of the prevailing wage violations, the penalty be not less that $10 per day. Requires the penalty be not less that $20 per day for contractors and subcontractors with prior violations and not less than $30 per day for willful violations.

In Assembly. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on Labor and Employment

S.B. 966

Authorizes a contractor to bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover from an awarding body any increased costs incurred by the contractor as a result of any decision that classifies, after the time at which the awarding body accepts the contractors' bid, a project as a "public work" or a change, after the time at which the awarding body accepts the contractor's bid, in the prevailing wage rate.

From Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations: Do pass to Committee on Appropriations

CONNECTICUT

H.B. 5103

Repeals the prevailing wage law; repeals existing prevailing wage requirements.

Failed Joint Favorable deadline

H.B. 5118

Establishes a three-year moratorium on the application of the prevailing wage law to school and transportation projects; imposes a three-year moratorium on prevailing wage requirements for certain state projects.

Failed Joint Favorable deadline

H.B. 5357

Repeals state prevailing wage laws; repeals the state's prevailing wage requirements.

Failed Joint Favorable deadline

H.B. 5556

Concerns a temporary moratorium on prevailing wage laws; provides a three-year moratorium on the application of prevailing wage requirements to municipal construction projects.

Failed Joint Favorable deadline

H.B. 5558

Concerns relief from prevailing wage laws; provides relief to municipalities and the state from the prevailing wage laws.

Failed Joint Favorable deadline

H.B. 5564

Establishes a three-year moratorium on the state's prevailing wage laws.

Failed Joint Favorable deadline

H.B. 5887

Concerns the prevailing wage law; provides financial relief to municipalities by reforming the prevailing wage law, thereby making funds available for school construction, transportation investments and other priority state and local capital improvements.

Failed Joint Favorable deadline

H.B. 6463

Concerns reporting requirements on prevailing wage projects; brings section 31-53 in conformity with federal prevailing wage laws by requiring that all "persons" instead of all "employees" performing work on state-funded projects be paid prevailing wages and be listed on the certified payrolls.

Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 444

S.B. 960

Concerns debarment reform; strengthens debarment practices against contractors that violate the prevailing wage laws.

Reissued by Legislative Commissioner's Office with File No. 443

S.B. 346

Increases Indiana's minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.15 per hour; requires a contractor that receives public financial assistance to pay prevailing wages on all construction projects undertaken by the contractor in Indiana; provides that a contractor that knowingly or intentionally violates this requirement commits a Class B misdemeanor; provides that a contractor that commits two offenses within 12 months is disqualified from receiving financial assistance.

To Senate Committee on Pensions and Labor

MARYLAND

S.B. 80

Increases to 75% or more the percentage of State money that must be used in an elementary or secondary school construction project before the Prevailing Wage Law applies.

From Senate Committee on Finance: Reported unfavorably

MASSACHUSETTS

H.B. 1050

Provides for legislation to clarify the prevailing wage law.

Filed as House Docket 1152

H.B. 2884

Exempts from certain provisions of prevailing wage law.

Filed as House Docket 2908

H.D. 1152

Clarifies prevailing wage laws.

Assigned House Bill No. 1050

MICHIGAN

H.B. 4161

Relates to prevailing hours and wage; applies average pay to determine prevailing wage rate; exempts workers for certain plants from prevailing wage law.

To House Committee on Employment Relations, Training and Safety

MINNESOTA

H.B. 1186

Relates to prevailing hours and wage; applies average pay to determine prevailing wage rate; exempts workers for certain plants from prevailing wage law.

To House Committee on Commerce, Jobs and Economic Development

MISSOURI

S.B. 287

Removes work done on behalf of schools from the requirements of the prevailing wage laws in some instances.

In Senate Committee on Small Business, Insurance and Industrial Relations: Voted do pass as substituted.

S.B. 333

Allows some political subdivisions to exempt themselves from the state prevailing wage law upon voter approval.

To Senate Committee on Economic Development, Tourism, and Local Government

NEW JERSEY

S.B. 247

Establishes criminal penalties for failure to pay the prevailing wage in public works.

To Senate Committee on Labor

NEW YORK

A.B. 1499

Defines lowest responsible bidder for purposes of the prevailing wage law to include only those who have not been found guilty of an unfair labor practice within a 3 year period preceding the award of a public works project in order to disqualify as the lowest responsible bidder on a public works contract those bidders who have violated certain federal or state labor laws; permits challenges to the determination of the lowest possible bidder.

To Assembly Committee on Codes

A.B. 6734

Relates to payment of prevailing wages concerning public construction and public building contracts therefor creating a single prevailing wage law to eliminate existing confusion and provide employers and employees with a uniform set of rules and definitions.

To Assembly Committee on Labor

A.B. 8109

Provides for daily count of workers, by trade, at job site during any public works project requiring payment of the prevailing wage; such records to be maintained for three years by the fiscal officer; knowingly submitting false records is a misdemeanor.

To Assembly Committee on Labor

S.B. 861

Defines lowest responsible bidder for purpose of the prevailing wage law to include only those who have not been found guilty of an unfair labor practice within a three year period preceeding the award of a public works project in order to disqualify as the lowest responsible bidder on a public works contract those bidders who have violated certain federal or state labor laws; permits challenges to the determination of the lowest possible bidder.

To Senate Committee on Labor

S.B. 4350

Provides for the payment to aggrieved workers where a claim is made and determined for violations relating to payment of prevailing wages; allows for the accrual and payment of interest where payments are not timely made to the aggrieved worker.

To Senate Committee on Labor

S.B. 4351

Permits the bonding of withholdings instituted in a prevailing wage case; the fiscal officer of the involved municipality or political subdivision shall determine the form and amount and be conditioned for the payment by the contractor of any judgment which may be recovered in an action brought upon a claim for failure to pay appropriate wages.

To Senate Committee on Labor

OHIO

H.B. 45

Makes school facilities contruction subject to the Prevailing Wage Law and to prohibit a board of education of a school district or the governing board of an educational service center from awarding a contract for contruction, repair, or other work on a public improvement that is supported in whole or in part by the state to a contractor that does not have a principal place of business in Ohio.

In House Committee on Commerce and Labor: Not heard

OREGON

H.B. 2192

Modifies duties of program director of Youth Conservation Corps; exempts corps members from prevailing wage law; changes name of Community Service Corps to Community Stewardship Corps.

Chaptered. Chapter No.

H.B. 3544

Relates to wage laws; modifies limitations on penalty wages for failure to pay wages on termination; permits court to award costs and attorney fees to prevailing party in action to collect wages or action for collection of any order, check memorandum or other acknowledgment of indebtedness for wages; limits attorney fees for employee under certain circumstances

To House Committee on Business, Labor and Consumer Affairs

PENNSYLVANIA

S.B. 353

Amends the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act of 1961. Excludes political subdivisions from the act. Authorizes optional prevailing wage ordinances. Makes repeals.

To Senate Committee on Labor and Industry

WASHINGTON

H.B. 1386

Reforms prevailing wage laws.

To House Committee on Commerce and Labor