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 1        AN ACT in relation to procurement.

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

 4        Section  5.  The  Illinois Procurement Code is amended by
 5    changing Section 25-60 as follows:

 6        (30 ILCS 500/25-60)
 7        Sec. 25-60.  Prevailing wage requirements.
 8        (a)  All services furnished under  service  contracts  of
 9    $2,000  or  more or $200 or more per month and under printing
10    contracts shall be subject to the following  prevailing  wage
11    requirements:
12             (1)  Not  less than the general prevailing wage rate
13        of hourly wages for work of a similar  character  in  the
14        locality  in  which the work is produced shall be paid by
15        the successful vendor to its employees  who  perform  the
16        work  on  the State contracts.  The bidder or offeror, in
17        order to be considered to  be  a  responsible  bidder  or
18        offeror  for  the purposes of this Code, shall certify to
19        the purchasing agency  that  wages  to  be  paid  to  its
20        employees  are  no  less, and fringe benefits and working
21        conditions of employees  are  not  less  favorable,  than
22        those prevailing in the locality where the contract is to
23        be  performed.    Prevailing wages and working conditions
24        shall be determined  by  the  Director  of  the  Illinois
25        Department of Labor.
26             (2)  Whenever  a  collective bargaining agreement is
27        in effect between an employer, other than a  governmental
28        body,  and  service  or  printing employees as defined in
29        this  Section  who  are  represented  by  a   responsible
30        organization  that  is in no way influenced or controlled
31        by the management,  that  agreement  and  its  provisions
 
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 1        shall  be  considered  as  conditions  prevalent  in that
 2        locality and shall be the minimum requirements taken into
 3        consideration by the Director of Labor.
 4             (3)  Collective bargaining agreements between  State
 5        employees  and  the  State of Illinois shall not be taken
 6        into account by the Department of  Labor  in  determining
 7        the prevailing wage rate.
 8        (b)  As used in this Section, "services" means janitorial
 9    cleaning  services,  window  cleaning  services, building and
10    grounds services, site technician services, natural resources
11    services, food services, and security services.    "Printing"
12    means  and  includes all processes and operations involved in
13    printing, including but not limited to  letterpress,  offset,
14    and  gravure processes, the multilith method, photographic or
15    other duplicating process,  the  operations  of  composition,
16    platemaking,  presswork, and binding, and the end products of
17    those processes, methods, and operations.  As  used  in  this
18    Code  "printing"  does  not  include photocopiers used in the
19    course of normal business activities, photographic  equipment
20    used  for  geographic  mapping,  or  printed  matter  that is
21    commonly available to  the  general  public  from  contractor
22    inventory.
23        (c)  The terms "general prevailing rate of hourly wages",
24    "general  prevailing  rate  of wages", or "prevailing rate of
25    wages" when used in this Section mean the hourly  cash  wages
26    plus  fringe  benefits  for  health  and  welfare, insurance,
27    vacations, and pensions paid generally, in  the  locality  in
28    which  the  work  is being performed, to employees engaged in
29    work of a similar character.
30        (d)  "Locality" shall have  the  meaning  established  by
31    rule.
32        (e)  This  Section  does  not apply to services furnished
33    under contracts for professional or artistic services.
34        (f)  This Section does not apply to  vocational  programs
 
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 1    of training for physically or mentally handicapped persons or
 2    to sheltered workshops for the severely disabled.
 3    (Source: P.A. 90-572, eff. date - See Sec. 99-5.)