093_HB3082
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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.)