Illinois 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB1247 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/10/2025

                    104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1247 Introduced , by Rep. Dave Vella SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 820 ILCS 130/2 Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that the definition of "public works" includes sewer inspection projects that utilize a closed-circuit television to identify issues in a sewer system, such as cracks in pipes, root intrusion, blockages, or other structural damage. LRB104 05987 SPS 16020 b   A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1247 Introduced , by Rep. Dave Vella SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:  820 ILCS 130/2 820 ILCS 130/2  Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that the definition of "public works" includes sewer inspection projects that utilize a closed-circuit television to identify issues in a sewer system, such as cracks in pipes, root intrusion, blockages, or other structural damage.  LRB104 05987 SPS 16020 b     LRB104 05987 SPS 16020 b   A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1247 Introduced , by Rep. Dave Vella SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 130/2 820 ILCS 130/2
820 ILCS 130/2
Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that the definition of "public works" includes sewer inspection projects that utilize a closed-circuit television to identify issues in a sewer system, such as cracks in pipes, root intrusion, blockages, or other structural damage.
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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)
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

 

104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1247 Introduced , by Rep. Dave Vella SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 130/2 820 ILCS 130/2
820 ILCS 130/2
Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that the definition of "public works" includes sewer inspection projects that utilize a closed-circuit television to identify issues in a sewer system, such as cracks in pipes, root intrusion, blockages, or other structural damage.
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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  or the Department of Natural Resources World Shooting and
23  Recreational Complex Act; and (iv) all transportation
24  facilities undertaken under a design-build contract or a
25  Construction Manager/General Contractor contract under the
26  Innovations for Transportation Infrastructure Act. "Public

 

 

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1  works" also includes all projects at leased facility property
2  used for airport purposes under Section 35 of the Local
3  Government Facility Lease Act. "Public works" also includes
4  the construction of a new wind power facility by a business
5  designated as a High Impact Business under Section
6  5.5(a)(3)(E) and the construction of a new utility-scale solar
7  power facility by a business designated as a High Impact
8  Business under Section 5.5(a)(3)(E-5) of the Illinois
9  Enterprise Zone Act. "Public works" also includes electric
10  vehicle charging station projects financed pursuant to the
11  Electric Vehicle Act and renewable energy projects required to
12  pay the prevailing wage pursuant to the Illinois Power Agency
13  Act. "Public works" also includes power washing projects by a
14  public body or paid for wholly or in part out of public funds
15  in which steam or pressurized water, with or without added
16  abrasives or chemicals, is used to remove paint or other
17  coatings, oils or grease, corrosion, or debris from a surface
18  or to prepare a surface for a coating. "Public works" does not
19  include work done directly by any public utility company,
20  whether or not done under public supervision or direction, or
21  paid for wholly or in part out of public funds. "Public works"
22  also includes construction projects performed by a third party
23  contracted by any public utility, as described in subsection
24  (a) of Section 2.1, in public rights-of-way, as defined in
25  Section 21-201 of the Public Utilities Act, whether or not
26  done under public supervision or direction, or paid for wholly

 

 

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1  or in part out of public funds. "Public works" also includes
2  construction projects that exceed 15 aggregate miles of new
3  fiber optic cable, performed by a third party contracted by
4  any public utility, as described in subsection (b) of Section
5  2.1, in public rights-of-way, as defined in Section 21-201 of
6  the Public Utilities Act, whether or not done under public
7  supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of
8  public funds. "Public works" also includes any corrective
9  action performed pursuant to Title XVI of the Environmental
10  Protection Act for which payment from the Underground Storage
11  Tank Fund is requested. "Public works" also includes all
12  construction projects involving fixtures or permanent
13  attachments affixed to light poles that are owned by a public
14  body, including street light poles, traffic light poles, and
15  other lighting fixtures, whether or not done under public
16  supervision or direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of
17  public funds, unless the project is performed by employees
18  employed directly by the public body. "Public works" also
19  includes work performed subject to the Mechanical Insulation
20  Energy and Safety Assessment Act. "Public works" also includes
21  the removal, hauling, and transportation of biosolids, lime
22  sludge, and lime residue from a water treatment plant or
23  facility and the disposal of biosolids, lime sludge, and lime
24  residue removed from a water treatment plant or facility at a
25  landfill. "Public works" also includes sewer inspection
26  projects that utilize a closed-circuit television to identify

 

 

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1  issues in a sewer system, such as cracks in pipes, root
2  intrusion, blockages, or other structural damage. "Public
3  works" does not include projects undertaken by the owner at an
4  owner-occupied single-family residence or at an owner-occupied
5  unit of a multi-family residence. "Public works" does not
6  include work performed for soil and water conservation
7  purposes on agricultural lands, whether or not done under
8  public supervision or paid for wholly or in part out of public
9  funds, done directly by an owner or person who has legal
10  control of those lands.
11  "Construction" means all work on public works involving
12  laborers, workers or mechanics. This includes any maintenance,
13  repair, assembly, or disassembly work performed on equipment
14  whether owned, leased, or rented.
15  "Locality" means the county where the physical work upon
16  public works is performed, except (1) that if there is not
17  available in the county a sufficient number of competent
18  skilled laborers, workers and mechanics to construct the
19  public works efficiently and properly, "locality" includes any
20  other county nearest the one in which the work or construction
21  is to be performed and from which such persons may be obtained
22  in sufficient numbers to perform the work and (2) that, with
23  respect to contracts for highway work with the Department of
24  Transportation of this State, "locality" may at the discretion
25  of the Secretary of the Department of Transportation be
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1  workers may be accessible for work on such construction.
2  "Public body" means the State or any officer, board or
3  commission of the State or any political subdivision or
4  department thereof, or any institution supported in whole or
5  in part by public funds, and includes every county, city,
6  town, village, township, school district, irrigation, utility,
7  reclamation improvement or other district and every other
8  political subdivision, district or municipality of the state
9  whether such political subdivision, municipality or district
10  operates under a special charter or not.
11  "Labor organization" means an organization that is the
12  exclusive representative of an employer's employees recognized
13  or certified pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act.
14  The terms "general prevailing rate of hourly wages",
15  "general prevailing rate of wages" or "prevailing rate of
16  wages" when used in this Act mean the hourly cash wages plus
17  annualized fringe benefits for training and apprenticeship
18  programs approved by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of
19  Apprenticeship and Training, health and welfare, insurance,
20  vacations and pensions paid generally, in the locality in
21  which the work is being performed, to employees engaged in
22  work of a similar character on public works.
23  (Source: P.A. 102-9, eff. 1-1-22; 102-444, eff. 8-20-21;
24  102-673, eff. 11-30-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22; 102-1094, eff.
25  6-15-22; 103-8, eff. 6-7-23; 103-327, eff. 1-1-24; 103-346,
26  eff. 1-1-24; 103-359, eff. 7-28-23; 103-447, eff. 8-4-23;

 

 

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