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90_SB1026
820 ILCS 130/2 from Ch. 48, par. 39s-2
Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Includes as public works
projects financed with bonds issued under the Tax Increment
Allocation Redevelopment Act. Provides that the Act applies
whenever a public utility company contracts with an outside
contractor on a construction project. Adds training among the
fringe benefits used to determine a prevailing wage.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Prevailing Wage Act by changing
2 Section 2.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Prevailing Wage Act is amended by changing
6 Section 2 as follows:
7 (820 ILCS 130/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 39s-2)
8 Sec. 2. This Act applies to the wages of laborers,
9 mechanics and other workers employed in any public works, as
10 hereinafter defined, by any public body and to anyone under
11 contracts for public works.
12 As used in this Act, unless the context indicates
13 otherwise:
14 "Public works" means all fixed works constructed for
15 public use by any public body, other than work done directly
16 by any public utility company (except as otherwise provided
17 in this Section), whether or not done under public
18 supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or in part out
19 of public funds. "Public works" as defined herein includes
20 all projects financed in whole or in part with bonds issued
21 under the Industrial Project Revenue Bond Act (Article 11,
22 Division 74 of the Illinois Municipal Code), the tax
23 Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act (Article 11, Division
24 74.4 of the Illinois Municipal Code) as now or hereafter
25 amended, the Industrial Building Revenue Bond Act, as now or
26 hereafter amended, the Illinois Development Finance Authority
27 Act, as now or hereafter amended, or the Build Illinois Bond
28 Act, as now or hereafter amended, and all projects financed
29 in whole or in part with loans or other funds made available
30 pursuant to The Build Illinois Act or under the Illinois
31 Enterprise Zone Loan Act, as now or hereafter amended.
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1 "Construction" means all work on public works involving
2 laborers, workers or mechanics.
3 "Locality" means the county where the physical work upon
4 public works is performed, except (1) that if there is not
5 available in the county a sufficient number of competent
6 skilled laborers, workers and mechanics to construct the
7 public works efficiently and properly, "locality" includes
8 any other county nearest the one in which the work or
9 construction is to be performed and from which such persons
10 may be obtained in sufficient numbers to perform the work and
11 (2) that, with respect to contracts for highway work with the
12 Department of Transportation of this State, "locality" may at
13 the discretion of the Secretary of the Department of
14 Transportation be construed to include two or more adjacent
15 counties from which workers may be accessible for work on
16 such construction.
17 "Public body" means the State or any officer, board or
18 commission of the State or any political subdivision or
19 department thereof, or any institution supported in whole or
20 in part by public funds, authorized by law to construct
21 public works or to enter into any contract for the
22 construction of public works, and includes every county,
23 city, town, village, township, school district, irrigation,
24 utility, reclamation improvement or other district and every
25 other political subdivision, district or municipality of the
26 state whether such political subdivision, municipality or
27 district operates under a special charter or not.
28 The terms "general prevailing rate of hourly wages",
29 "general prevailing rate of wages" or "prevailing rate of
30 wages" when used in this Act mean the hourly cash wages plus
31 fringe benefits for training, health and welfare, insurance,
32 vacations and pensions paid generally, in the locality in
33 which the work is being performed, to employees engaged in
34 work of a similar character on public works.
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1 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, whenever
2 a public utility company contracts with an outside contractor
3 on any construction project, the project shall be considered
4 "public work" for purposes of this Act and the public utility
5 company shall be considered a "public body" for purposes of
6 this Act, and this Act shall apply to the public utility
7 company and to the contractor, its subcontractors, and their
8 laborers, workers, and mechanics.
9 (Source: P.A. 86-799; 86-1028.)