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Public Act 91-0105

HB2255 Enrolled                                LRB9000204WHmg

    AN ACT to amend  the  Prevailing  Wage  Act  by  changing
Section 2.

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

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

    (820 ILCS 130/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 39s-2)
    Sec. 2.  This Act  applies  to  the  wages  of  laborers,
mechanics  and other workers employed in any public works, as
hereinafter defined, by any public body and to  anyone  under
contracts for public works.
    As  used  in  this  Act,  unless  the  context  indicates
otherwise:
    "Public  works"  means  all  fixed  works constructed for
public use by any public body, other than work done  directly
by  any  public  utility  company,  whether or not done under
public supervision or direction, or paid  for  wholly  or  in
part  out  of  public funds. "Public works" as defined herein
includes all projects financed in whole or in part with bonds
issued under the Industrial Project Revenue Bond Act (Article
11, Division 74 of the Illinois Municipal Code),  as  now  or
hereafter  amended, the Industrial Building Revenue Bond Act,
as now or hereafter amended, the Illinois Development Finance
Authority Act, as now or  hereafter  amended,  or  the  Build
Illinois  Bond  Act,  as  now  or  hereafter amended, and all
projects financed in whole or in part  with  loans  or  other
funds  made  available pursuant to The Build Illinois Act, as
now or hereafter amended.
    "Construction" means all work on public  works  involving
laborers, workers or mechanics.
    "Locality"  means the county where the physical work upon
public works is performed, except (1) that if  there  is  not
available  in  the  county  a  sufficient number of competent
skilled laborers, workers  and  mechanics  to  construct  the
public  works  efficiently  and properly, "locality" includes
any other county  nearest  the  one  in  which  the  work  or
construction  is  to be performed and from which such persons
may be obtained in sufficient numbers to perform the work and
(2) that, with respect to contracts for highway work with the
Department of Transportation of this State, "locality" may at
the  discretion  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Department   of
Transportation  be  construed to include two or more adjacent
counties from which workers may be  accessible  for  work  on
such construction.
    "Public  body"  means  the State or any officer, board or
commission of the  State  or  any  political  subdivision  or
department  thereof, or any institution supported in whole or
in part by public  funds,  authorized  by  law  to  construct
public   works   or  to  enter  into  any  contract  for  the
construction of public  works,  and  includes  every  county,
city,  town,  village, township, school district, irrigation,
utility, reclamation improvement or other district and  every
other  political subdivision, district or municipality of the
state whether such  political  subdivision,  municipality  or
district operates under a special charter or not.
    The  terms  "general  prevailing  rate  of hourly wages",
"general prevailing rate of wages"  or  "prevailing  rate  of
wages"  when used in this Act mean the hourly cash wages plus
fringe benefits  for  training  and  apprenticeship  programs
approved   by   the  U.S.  Department  of  Labor,  Bureau  of
Apprenticeship and Training, health and  welfare,  insurance,
vacations  and  pensions  paid  generally, in the locality in
which the work is being performed, to  employees  engaged  in
work of a similiar character on public works.
(Source: P.A. 86-799; 86-1028.)

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