Full Text of HB5038 97th General Assembly
HB5038 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2011 and 2012 HB5038 Introduced 2/7/2012, by Rep. Darlene J. Senger SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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820 ILCS 130/2 | from Ch. 48, par. 39s-2 |
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Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Excludes from the scope of the Act the removal of trees and limbs along roadways and parkways when that work is not part of other construction. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning wages.
| 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 | | 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. This includes any maintenance, | 11 | | repair, assembly, or disassembly work performed on equipment | 12 | | whether owned, leased, or rented.
| 13 | | As used in this Act, unless the context indicates | 14 | | otherwise:
| 15 | | "Public works" means all fixed works constructed or | 16 | | demolished by
any public body,
or paid for wholly or in part | 17 | | out of public funds. "Public works" as
defined herein includes | 18 | | all projects financed in whole
or in part with bonds, grants, | 19 | | loans, or other funds made available by or through the State or | 20 | | any of its political subdivisions, including but not limited | 21 | | to: bonds issued under the Industrial Project Revenue Bond
Act | 22 | | (Article 11, Division 74 of the Illinois Municipal Code), the | 23 | | Industrial
Building Revenue Bond Act, the Illinois Finance |
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| 1 | | Authority Act,
the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act, or | 2 | | the Build Illinois Bond Act; loans or other funds made
| 3 | | available pursuant to the Build Illinois Act; or funds from the | 4 | | Fund for
Illinois' Future under Section 6z-47 of the State | 5 | | Finance Act, funds for school
construction under Section 5 of | 6 | | the General Obligation Bond Act, funds
authorized under Section | 7 | | 3 of the School Construction Bond Act, funds for
school | 8 | | infrastructure under Section 6z-45 of the State Finance Act, | 9 | | and funds
for transportation purposes under Section 4 of the | 10 | | General Obligation Bond
Act. "Public works" also includes (i) | 11 | | all projects financed in whole or in part
with funds from the | 12 | | Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity under the | 13 | | Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program
Act for which | 14 | | there is no project labor agreement; (ii) all work performed | 15 | | pursuant to a public private agreement under the Public Private | 16 | | Agreements for the Illiana Expressway Act; and (iii) all | 17 | | projects undertaken under a public-private agreement under the | 18 | | Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act. "Public | 19 | | works" also includes all projects at leased facility property | 20 | | used for airport purposes under Section 35 of the Local | 21 | | Government Facility Lease Act. "Public works" also includes the | 22 | | construction of a new wind power facility by a business | 23 | | designated as a High Impact Business under Section 5.5(a)(3)(E) | 24 | | of the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act.
"Public works" does not | 25 | | include work done directly by any public utility company, | 26 | | whether or not done under public supervision or direction, or |
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| 1 | | paid for wholly or in part out of public funds. "Public works" | 2 | | does not include projects undertaken by the owner at an | 3 | | owner-occupied single-family residence or at an owner-occupied | 4 | | unit of a multi-family residence. "Public works" does not | 5 | | include the removal of trees and limbs along roadways and | 6 | | parkways when that removal is not a part of other construction.
| 7 | | "Construction" means all work on public works involving | 8 | | laborers,
workers or mechanics. This includes any maintenance, | 9 | | repair, assembly, or disassembly work performed on equipment | 10 | | whether owned, leased, or rented.
| 11 | | "Locality" means the county where the physical work upon | 12 | | public works
is performed, except (1) that if there is not | 13 | | available in the county a
sufficient number of competent | 14 | | skilled laborers, workers and mechanics
to construct the public | 15 | | works efficiently and properly, "locality"
includes any other | 16 | | county nearest the one in which the work or
construction is to | 17 | | be performed and from which such persons may be
obtained in | 18 | | sufficient numbers to perform the work and (2) that, with
| 19 | | respect to contracts for highway work with the Department of
| 20 | | Transportation of this State, "locality" may at the discretion | 21 | | of the
Secretary of the Department of Transportation be | 22 | | construed to include
two or more adjacent counties from which | 23 | | workers may be accessible for
work on such construction.
| 24 | | "Public body" means the State or any officer, board or | 25 | | commission of
the State or any political subdivision or | 26 | | department thereof, or any
institution supported in whole or in |
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| 1 | | part by public funds,
and includes every county, city, town,
| 2 | | village, township, school district, irrigation, utility, | 3 | | reclamation
improvement or other district and every other | 4 | | political subdivision,
district or municipality of the state | 5 | | whether such political
subdivision, municipality or district | 6 | | operates under a special charter
or not.
| 7 | | The terms "general prevailing rate of hourly wages", | 8 | | "general
prevailing rate of wages" or "prevailing rate of | 9 | | wages" when used in
this Act mean the hourly cash wages plus | 10 | | fringe benefits for training and
apprenticeship programs | 11 | | approved by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of
| 12 | | Apprenticeship and Training, health and welfare, insurance, | 13 | | vacations and
pensions paid generally, in the
locality in which | 14 | | the work is being performed, to employees engaged in
work of a | 15 | | similar character on public works.
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 96-28, eff. 7-1-09; 96-58, eff. 1-1-10; 96-186, | 17 | | eff. 1-1-10; 96-913, eff. 6-9-10; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 97-502, | 18 | | eff. 8-23-11.)
| 19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 20 | | becoming law.
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