102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1230

 

Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 130/7  from Ch. 48, par. 39s-7

    Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning findings of the Department of Labor.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning employment.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Prevailing Wage Act is amended by changing
5Section 7 as follows:
 
6    (820 ILCS 130/7)  (from Ch. 48, par. 39s-7)
7    Sec. 7. The The finding of the Department of Labor
8ascertaining and declaring the general prevailing rate of
9hourly wages shall be final for all purposes of the contract
10for public work then being considered, unless reviewed under
11the provisions of this Act. Nothing in this Act, however,
12shall be construed to prohibit the payment to any laborer,
13worker or mechanic employed on any public work, as aforesaid,
14of more than the prevailing rate of wages; provided further
15that nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the hours
16of work which may be performed by any person in any particular
17period of time.
18(Source: P.A. 100-1177, eff. 6-1-19.)