93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2875

 

Introduced 2/6/2004, by Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 130/2   from Ch. 48, par. 39s-2
820 ILCS 130/3   from Ch. 48, par. 39s-3

    Provides that the transportation of aggregate materials to or from the job site shall be deemed to be employment on public works. Eliminates a provision that the processing of non-aggregate materials shall not be deemed to be employment on public works.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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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 changing
5 Sections 2 and 3 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 by any
14 public body, other than work done directly by any public
15 utility company, whether or not done under public supervision
16 or direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of public
17 funds. "Public works" as defined herein includes all projects
18 financed in whole or in part with bonds issued under the
19 Industrial Project Revenue Bond Act (Article 11, Division 74 of
20 the Illinois Municipal Code), the Industrial Building Revenue
21 Bond Act, the Illinois Finance Authority Act, the Illinois
22 Sports Facilities Authority Act, or the Build Illinois Bond
23 Act, and all projects financed in whole or in part with loans
24 or other funds made available pursuant to the Build Illinois
25 Act. "Public works" also includes all projects financed in
26 whole or in part with funds from the Fund for Illinois' Future
27 under Section 6z-47 of the State Finance Act, funds for school
28 construction under Section 5 of the General Obligation Bond
29 Act, funds authorized under Section 3 of the School
30 Construction Bond Act, funds for school infrastructure under
31 Section 6z-45 of the State Finance Act, and funds for
32 transportation purposes under Section 4 of the General

 

 

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1 Obligation Bond Act. "Public works" also includes all projects
2 financed in whole or in part with funds from the Department of
3 Commerce and Economic Opportunity Community Affairs under the
4 Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program Act for which
5 there is no project labor agreement.
6     "Construction" means all work on public works involving
7 laborers, workers or mechanics.
8     "Locality" means the county where the physical work upon
9 public works is performed, except (1) that if there is not
10 available in the county a sufficient number of competent
11 skilled laborers, workers and mechanics to construct the public
12 works efficiently and properly, "locality" includes any other
13 county nearest the one in which the work or construction is to
14 be performed and from which such persons may be obtained in
15 sufficient numbers to perform the work and (2) that, with
16 respect to contracts for highway work with the Department of
17 Transportation of this State, "locality" may at the discretion
18 of the Secretary of the Department of Transportation be
19 construed to include two or more adjacent counties from which
20 workers may be accessible for work on such construction.
21     "Public body" means the State or any officer, board or
22 commission of the State or any political subdivision or
23 department thereof, or any institution supported in whole or in
24 part by public funds, and includes every county, city, town,
25 village, township, school district, irrigation, utility,
26 reclamation improvement or other district and every other
27 political subdivision, district or municipality of the state
28 whether such political subdivision, municipality or district
29 operates under a special charter or not.
30     The terms "general prevailing rate of hourly wages",
31 "general prevailing rate of wages" or "prevailing rate of
32 wages" when used in this Act mean the hourly cash wages plus
33 fringe benefits for training and apprenticeship programs
34 approved by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of
35 Apprenticeship and Training, health and welfare, insurance,
36 vacations and pensions paid generally, in the locality in which

 

 

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1 the work is being performed, to employees engaged in work of a
2 similar character on public works.
3     "Aggregate materials" means rock, gravel, sand, pebbles,
4 dirt, soil, clay, bitumen, cultured/polymer, cement, concrete,
5 asphalt, and like materials.
6 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 93-15, eff. 6-11-03; 93-16,
7 eff. 1-1-04; 93-205, eff. 1-1-04; revised 1-12-04.)
 
8     (820 ILCS 130/3)  (from Ch. 48, par. 39s-3)
9     Sec. 3. Not less than the general prevailing rate of hourly
10 wages for work of a similar character on public works in the
11 locality in which the work is performed, and not less than the
12 general prevailing rate of hourly wages for legal holiday and
13 overtime work, shall be paid to all laborers, workers and
14 mechanics employed by or on behalf of any public body engaged
15 in the construction of public works. Only such laborers,
16 workers and mechanics as are directly employed by contractors
17 or subcontractors in actual construction work on the site of
18 the building or construction job, and laborers, workers and
19 mechanics engaged in the transportation of materials,
20 including aggregate materials, and equipment to or from the
21 site, but not including the transportation by the sellers and
22 suppliers or the manufacture or processing of materials or
23 equipment, in the execution of any contract or contracts for
24 public works with any public body shall be deemed to be
25 employed upon public works.
26     The transportation by the sellers and suppliers or the
27 manufacture of non-aggregate materials or equipment in the
28 execution of any contract or contracts for public works with
29 any public body shall not be deemed to be employment upon
30 public works.
31     The wage for a tradesman performing maintenance is
32 equivalent to that of a tradesman engaged in construction.
33 (Source: P.A. 93-15, eff. 6-11-03; 93-16, eff. 1-1-04.)