093_HB3399

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning employment.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section   5.  The  Prevailing  Wage  Act  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 2 as follows:

 6        (820 ILCS 130/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 39s-2)
 7        Sec. 2.  This Act  applies  to  the  wages  of  laborers,
 8    mechanics  and other workers employed in any public works, as
 9    hereinafter defined, by any public body and to  anyone  under
10    contracts for public works.
11        As  used  in  this  Act,  unless  the  context  indicates
12    otherwise:
13        "Public  works"  means  all  fixed  works constructed for
14    public use by any public body, other than work done  directly
15    by  any  public  utility  company,  whether or not done under
16    public supervision or direction, or paid  for  wholly  or  in
17    part  out  of public funds.  "Public works" as defined herein
18    includes all projects financed in whole or in part with bonds
19    issued under the Industrial Project Revenue Bond Act (Article
20    11, Division 74 of the  Illinois  Municipal  Code),  the  Tax
21    Increment  Allocation Redevelopment Act (Article 11, Division
22    74.4 of the Illinois Municipal Code), the Industrial Building
23    Revenue Bond Act, the Illinois Development Finance  Authority
24    Act,  the  Illinois  Sports  Facilities Authority Act, or the
25    Build Illinois Bond Act, and all projects financed  in  whole
26    or  in part with loans or other funds made available pursuant
27    to the Build Illinois Act or under  the  Illinois  Enterprise
28    Zone Loan Act.
29        "Construction"  means  all work on public works involving
30    laborers, workers or mechanics.
31        "Locality" means the county where the physical work  upon
 
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 1    public  works  is  performed, except (1) that if there is not
 2    available in the county  a  sufficient  number  of  competent
 3    skilled  laborers,  workers  and  mechanics  to construct the
 4    public works efficiently and  properly,  "locality"  includes
 5    any  other  county  nearest  the  one  in  which  the work or
 6    construction is to be performed and from which  such  persons
 7    may be obtained in sufficient numbers to perform the work and
 8    (2) that, with respect to contracts for highway work with the
 9    Department of Transportation of this State, "locality" may at
10    the   discretion  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Department  of
11    Transportation be construed to include two or  more  adjacent
12    counties  from  which  workers  may be accessible for work on
13    such construction.
14        "Public body" means the State or any  officer,  board  or
15    commission  of  the  State  or  any  political subdivision or
16    department thereof, or any institution supported in whole  or
17    in  part  by  public  funds,  authorized  by law to construct
18    public  works  or  to  enter  into  any  contract   for   the
19    construction  of  public  works,  and  includes every county,
20    city, town, village, township, school  district,  irrigation,
21    utility,  reclamation improvement or other district and every
22    other political subdivision, district or municipality of  the
23    state  whether  such  political  subdivision, municipality or
24    district operates under a special charter or not.
25        The terms "general  prevailing  rate  of  hourly  wages",
26    "general  prevailing  rate  of  wages" or "prevailing rate of
27    wages" when used in this Act mean the hourly cash wages  plus
28    fringe  benefits  for  training  and  apprenticeship programs
29    approved  by  the  U.S.  Department  of  Labor,   Bureau   of
30    Apprenticeship  and  Training, health and welfare, insurance,
31    vacations and pensions paid generally,  in  the  locality  in
32    which  the  work  is being performed, to employees engaged in
33    work of a similar character on public works.
34    (Source: P.A.  91-105,  eff.  1-1-00;  91-935,  eff.  6-1-01;
 
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 1    92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)

 2        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 3    becoming law.