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Full Text of HB3370  103rd General Assembly

HB3370eng 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  
  

 


 
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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 2 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" also includes power washing
12projects in which steam or pressurized water, with or without
13added abrasives or chemicals, is used to remove paint or other
14coatings, oils or grease, corrosion, or debris from a surface
15or to prepare a surface for a coating. "Public works" does not
16include work done directly by any public utility company,
17whether or not done under public supervision or direction, or
18paid for wholly or in part out of public funds. "Public works"
19also includes construction projects performed by a third party
20contracted by any public utility, as described in subsection
21(a) of Section 2.1, in public rights-of-way, as defined in
22Section 21-201 of the Public Utilities Act, whether or not
23done under public supervision or direction, or paid for wholly
24or in part out of public funds. "Public works" also includes
25construction projects that exceed 15 aggregate miles of new
26fiber optic cable, performed by a third party contracted by

 

 

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1any public utility, as described in subsection (b) of Section
22.1, in public rights-of-way, as defined in Section 21-201 of
3the Public Utilities Act, whether or not done under public
4supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of
5public funds. "Public works" also includes any corrective
6action performed pursuant to Title XVI of the Environmental
7Protection Act for which payment from the Underground Storage
8Tank Fund is requested. "Public works" does not include
9projects undertaken by the owner at an owner-occupied
10single-family residence or at an owner-occupied unit of a
11multi-family residence. "Public works" does not include work
12performed for soil and water conservation purposes on
13agricultural lands, whether or not done under public
14supervision or paid for wholly or in part out of public funds,
15done directly by an owner or person who has legal control of
16those lands.
17    "Construction" means all work on public works involving
18laborers, workers or mechanics. This includes any maintenance,
19repair, assembly, or disassembly work performed on equipment
20whether owned, leased, or rented.
21    "Locality" means the county where the physical work upon
22public works is performed, except (1) that if there is not
23available in the county a sufficient number of competent
24skilled laborers, workers and mechanics to construct the
25public works efficiently and properly, "locality" includes any
26other county nearest the one in which the work or construction

 

 

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1is to be performed and from which such persons may be obtained
2in sufficient numbers to perform the work and (2) that, with
3respect to contracts for highway work with the Department of
4Transportation of this State, "locality" may at the discretion
5of the Secretary of the Department of Transportation be
6construed to include two or more adjacent counties from which
7workers may be accessible for work on such construction.
8    "Public body" means the State or any officer, board or
9commission of the State or any political subdivision or
10department thereof, or any institution supported in whole or
11in part by public funds, and includes every county, city,
12town, village, township, school district, irrigation, utility,
13reclamation improvement or other district and every other
14political subdivision, district or municipality of the state
15whether such political subdivision, municipality or district
16operates under a special charter or not.
17    "Labor organization" means an organization that is the
18exclusive representative of an employer's employees recognized
19or certified pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act.
20    The terms "general prevailing rate of hourly wages",
21"general prevailing rate of wages" or "prevailing rate of
22wages" when used in this Act mean the hourly cash wages plus
23annualized fringe benefits for training and apprenticeship
24programs approved by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of
25Apprenticeship and Training, health and welfare, insurance,
26vacations and pensions paid generally, in the locality in

 

 

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1which the work is being performed, to employees engaged in
2work of a similar character on public works.
3(Source: P.A. 102-9, eff. 1-1-22; 102-444, eff. 8-20-21;
4102-673, eff. 11-30-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22; 102-1094, eff.
56-15-22.)