103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB1592

 

Introduced 2/8/2023, by Sen. Linda Holmes

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 130/2  from Ch. 48, par. 39s-2
820 ILCS 130/3  from Ch. 48, par. 39s-3

    Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that regardless of location, all laborers, workers, and mechanics who produce aggregate material that is incorporated, directly or indirectly, into public works or who process aggregate material into concrete, cement, or asphalt that is incorporated, directly or indirectly, into public works shall be deemed to be employed upon public works. Defines "aggregate materials" as rock, gravel, sand, pebbles, dirt, soil, clay, bitumen, cultured polymer, cement, concrete, asphalt, and like materials or any other material over which the State or its agencies or political subdivisions exercise engineering specification authority.


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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
5Sections 2 and 3 as follows:
 
6    (820 ILCS 130/2)  (from Ch. 48, par. 39s-2)
7    Sec. 2. This Act applies to the wages of laborers,
8mechanics and other workers employed in any public works, as
9hereinafter defined, by any public body and to anyone under
10contracts for public works. This includes any maintenance,
11repair, assembly, or disassembly work performed on equipment
12whether owned, leased, or rented.
13    As used in this Act, unless the context indicates
14otherwise:
15    "Public works" means all fixed works constructed or
16demolished by any public body, or paid for wholly or in part
17out of public funds. "Public works" as defined herein includes
18all projects financed in whole or in part with bonds, grants,
19loans, or other funds made available by or through the State or
20any of its political subdivisions, including but not limited
21to: bonds issued under the Industrial Project Revenue Bond Act
22(Article 11, Division 74 of the Illinois Municipal Code), the
23Industrial Building Revenue Bond Act, the Illinois Finance

 

 

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1Authority Act, the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act,
2or the Build Illinois Bond Act; loans or other funds made
3available pursuant to the Build Illinois Act; loans or other
4funds made available pursuant to the Riverfront Development
5Fund under Section 10-15 of the River Edge Redevelopment Zone
6Act; or funds from the Fund for Illinois' Future under Section
76z-47 of the State Finance Act, funds for school construction
8under Section 5 of the General Obligation Bond Act, funds
9authorized under Section 3 of the School Construction Bond
10Act, funds for school infrastructure under Section 6z-45 of
11the State Finance Act, and funds for transportation purposes
12under Section 4 of the General Obligation Bond Act. "Public
13works" also includes (i) all projects financed in whole or in
14part with funds from the Environmental Protection Agency under
15the Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program Act for which
16there is no project labor agreement; (ii) all work performed
17pursuant to a public private agreement under the Public
18Private Agreements for the Illiana Expressway Act or the
19Public-Private Agreements for the South Suburban Airport Act;
20(iii) all projects undertaken under a public-private agreement
21under the Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act;
22and (iv) all transportation facilities undertaken under a
23design-build contract or a Construction Manager/General
24Contractor contract under the Innovations for Transportation
25Infrastructure Act. "Public works" also includes all projects
26at leased facility property used for airport purposes under

 

 

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1Section 35 of the Local Government Facility Lease Act. "Public
2works" also includes the construction of a new wind power
3facility by a business designated as a High Impact Business
4under Section 5.5(a)(3)(E) and the construction of a new
5utility-scale solar power facility by a business designated as
6a High Impact Business under Section 5.5(a)(3)(E-5) of the
7Illinois Enterprise Zone Act. "Public works" also includes
8electric vehicle charging station projects financed pursuant
9to the Electric Vehicle Act and renewable energy projects
10required to pay the prevailing wage pursuant to the Illinois
11Power Agency Act. "Public works" does not include work done
12directly by any public utility company, whether or not done
13under public supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or
14in part out of public funds. "Public works" also includes
15construction projects performed by a third party contracted by
16any public utility, as described in subsection (a) of Section
172.1, in public rights-of-way, as defined in Section 21-201 of
18the Public Utilities Act, whether or not done under public
19supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of
20public funds. "Public works" also includes construction
21projects that exceed 15 aggregate miles of new fiber optic
22cable, performed by a third party contracted by any public
23utility, as described in subsection (b) of Section 2.1, in
24public rights-of-way, as defined in Section 21-201 of the
25Public Utilities Act, whether or not done under public
26supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of

 

 

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1public funds. "Public works" also includes any corrective
2action performed pursuant to Title XVI of the Environmental
3Protection Act for which payment from the Underground Storage
4Tank Fund is requested. "Public works" does not include
5projects undertaken by the owner at an owner-occupied
6single-family residence or at an owner-occupied unit of a
7multi-family residence. "Public works" does not include work
8performed for soil and water conservation purposes on
9agricultural lands, whether or not done under public
10supervision or paid for wholly or in part out of public funds,
11done directly by an owner or person who has legal control of
12those lands.
13    "Construction" means all work on public works involving
14laborers, workers or mechanics. This includes any maintenance,
15repair, assembly, or disassembly work performed on equipment
16whether owned, leased, or rented.
17    "Locality" means the county where the physical work upon
18public works is performed, except (1) that if there is not
19available in the county a sufficient number of competent
20skilled laborers, workers and mechanics to construct the
21public works efficiently and properly, "locality" includes any
22other county nearest the one in which the work or construction
23is to be performed and from which such persons may be obtained
24in sufficient numbers to perform the work and (2) that, with
25respect to contracts for highway work with the Department of
26Transportation of this State, "locality" may at the discretion

 

 

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1of the Secretary of the Department of Transportation be
2construed to include two or more adjacent counties from which
3workers may be accessible for work on such construction.
4    "Public body" means the State or any officer, board or
5commission of the State or any political subdivision or
6department thereof, or any institution supported in whole or
7in part by public funds, and includes every county, city,
8town, village, township, school district, irrigation, utility,
9reclamation improvement or other district and every other
10political subdivision, district or municipality of the state
11whether such political subdivision, municipality or district
12operates under a special charter or not.
13    "Labor organization" means an organization that is the
14exclusive representative of an employer's employees recognized
15or certified pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act.
16    "Aggregate material" means rock, gravel, sand, pebbles,
17dirt, soil, clay, bitumen, cultured polymer, cement, concrete,
18asphalt, and like materials or any other material over which
19the State or its agencies or political subdivisions exercise
20engineering specification authority.
21    The terms "general prevailing rate of hourly wages",
22"general prevailing rate of wages" or "prevailing rate of
23wages" when used in this Act mean the hourly cash wages plus
24annualized fringe benefits for training and apprenticeship
25programs approved by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of
26Apprenticeship and Training, health and welfare, insurance,

 

 

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1vacations and pensions paid generally, in the locality in
2which the work is being performed, to employees engaged in
3work of a similar character on public works.
4(Source: P.A. 102-9, eff. 1-1-22; 102-444, eff. 8-20-21;
5102-673, eff. 11-30-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22; 102-1094, eff.
66-15-22.)
 
7    (820 ILCS 130/3)  (from Ch. 48, par. 39s-3)
8    Sec. 3. Not less than the general prevailing rate of
9hourly wages for work of a similar character on public works in
10the locality in which the work is performed, and not less than
11the general prevailing rate of hourly wages for legal holiday
12and overtime work, shall be paid to all laborers, workers, and
13mechanics employed by or on behalf of any public body engaged
14in the construction or demolition of public works. This
15includes any maintenance, repair, assembly, or disassembly
16work performed on equipment whether owned, leased, or rented.
17Only such laborers, workers, and mechanics as are directly
18employed by contractors or subcontractors in actual
19construction work on the site of the building or construction
20job, and, regardless of location, all laborers, workers, and
21mechanics who produce aggregate material that is incorporated,
22directly or indirectly, into public works or who process
23aggregate material into concrete, cement, or asphalt that is
24incorporated, directly or indirectly, into public works, and
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1of materials and equipment to or from the site, but not
2including the transportation by the sellers and suppliers or
3the manufacture or processing of materials, excluding
4aggregate materials, or equipment, in the execution of any
5contract or contracts for public works with any public body
6shall be deemed to be employed upon public works. The wage for
7a tradesman performing maintenance is equivalent to that of a
8tradesman engaged in construction or demolition.
9(Source: P.A. 95-341, eff. 8-21-07; 96-186, eff. 1-1-10.)