HB4893 Summary

• Amends the Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/2) to expand the definition of "subcontractor" to include trucking firms, independent truck owner-operators, and trucking brokers.

• Defines "trucking firm" as any legal business entity that owns more than one vehicle and hires those vehicles to perform services for brokers or contractors.

• Defines "independent truck owner-operator" as an individual, partnership, or principal stockholder of a corporation who owns or leases a vehicle and contracts that vehicle and their services to an entity providing construction hauling services.

• Defines "trucking broker" as an individual or business entity that contracts to provide and obtain trucking services in the construction industry, dispatches service providers, receives payment from users, and pays service providers.

• Becomes effective immediately upon enactment.