Illinois 2023 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB3792 Engrossed / Bill

Filed 03/17/2023

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1  AN ACT concerning employment.
2  Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3  represented in the General Assembly:
4  Section 5. The Prevailing Wage Act is amended by changing
5  Section 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,
8  mechanics and other workers employed in any public works, as
9  hereinafter defined, by any public body and to anyone under
10  contracts for public works. This includes any maintenance,
11  repair, assembly, or disassembly work performed on equipment
12  whether owned, leased, or rented.
13  As used in this Act, unless the context indicates
14  otherwise:
15  "Public works" means all fixed works constructed or
16  demolished by any public body, or paid for wholly or in part
17  out of public funds. "Public works" as defined herein includes
18  all projects financed in whole or in part with bonds, grants,
19  loans, or other funds made available by or through the State or
20  any of its political subdivisions, including but not limited
21  to: bonds issued under the Industrial Project Revenue Bond Act
22  (Article 11, Division 74 of the Illinois Municipal Code), the
23  Industrial Building Revenue Bond Act, the Illinois Finance

 

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1  Authority Act, the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act,
2  or the Build Illinois Bond Act; loans or other funds made
3  available pursuant to the Build Illinois Act; loans or other
4  funds made available pursuant to the Riverfront Development
5  Fund under Section 10-15 of the River Edge Redevelopment Zone
6  Act; or funds from the Fund for Illinois' Future under Section
7  6z-47 of the State Finance Act, funds for school construction
8  under Section 5 of the General Obligation Bond Act, funds
9  authorized under Section 3 of the School Construction Bond
10  Act, funds for school infrastructure under Section 6z-45 of
11  the State Finance Act, and funds for transportation purposes
12  under Section 4 of the General Obligation Bond Act. "Public
13  works" also includes (i) all projects financed in whole or in
14  part with funds from the Environmental Protection Agency under
15  the Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program Act for which
16  there is no project labor agreement; (ii) all work performed
17  pursuant to a public private agreement under the Public
18  Private Agreements for the Illiana Expressway Act or the
19  Public-Private Agreements for the South Suburban Airport Act;
20  (iii) all projects undertaken under a public-private agreement
21  under the Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act;
22  and (iv) all transportation facilities undertaken under a
23  design-build contract or a Construction Manager/General
24  Contractor contract under the Innovations for Transportation
25  Infrastructure Act. "Public works" also includes all projects
26  at leased facility property used for airport purposes under

 

 

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1  Section 35 of the Local Government Facility Lease Act. "Public
2  works" also includes the construction of a new wind power
3  facility by a business designated as a High Impact Business
4  under Section 5.5(a)(3)(E) and the construction of a new
5  utility-scale solar power facility by a business designated as
6  a High Impact Business under Section 5.5(a)(3)(E-5) of the
7  Illinois Enterprise Zone Act. "Public works" also includes
8  electric vehicle charging station projects financed pursuant
9  to the Electric Vehicle Act and renewable energy projects
10  required to pay the prevailing wage pursuant to the Illinois
11  Power Agency Act. "Public works" does not include work done
12  directly by any public utility company, whether or not done
13  under public supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or
14  in part out of public funds. "Public works" also includes
15  construction projects performed by a third party contracted by
16  any public utility, as described in subsection (a) of Section
17  2.1, in public rights-of-way, as defined in Section 21-201 of
18  the Public Utilities Act, whether or not done under public
19  supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of
20  public funds. "Public works" also includes construction
21  projects that exceed 15 aggregate miles of new fiber optic
22  cable, performed by a third party contracted by any public
23  utility, as described in subsection (b) of Section 2.1, in
24  public rights-of-way, as defined in Section 21-201 of the
25  Public Utilities Act, whether or not done under public
26  supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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1  vacations and pensions paid generally, in the locality in
2  which the work is being performed, to employees engaged in
3  work of a similar character on public works.
4  (Source: P.A. 102-9, eff. 1-1-22; 102-444, eff. 8-20-21;
5  102-673, eff. 11-30-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22; 102-1094, eff.
6  6-15-22.)
7  Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
8  becoming law.

 

 

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