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IN HB1052
Bill
Status
1/6/2015
Primary Sponsor
David Ober
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AI Summary
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Reduces the wage-setting committee from five members to three members, eliminating the position named by the state president of the Associated Builders and Contractors.
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Extends the validity period of wage determinations from three months to twelve months, allowing a single wage scale to apply to contracts let within a twelve-month period rather than three months.
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Increases the construction cost threshold for applicability of the common construction wage law to $1,000,000 for contracts awarded after December 31, 2015, up from the current $350,000 threshold.
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Maintains existing wage scale requirements for projects with actual construction costs exceeding the threshold, requiring wages to be paid according to classifications of skilled, semiskilled, and unskilled labor.
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Effective July 1, 2015, with the cost threshold change applying to contracts awarded after December 31, 2015.
Legislative Description
Common construction wage. Changes the composition of a committee that determines a scale of wages for a public work project. Changes from three months to 12 months the period during which the scale may be used. Provides that after December 31, 2015, the common construction wage law does not apply to a project in which the actual construction costs are less than $1,000,000. (Under current law, this figure is $350,000.) Makes technical changes.
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions
1/6/2015