PRINTER'S NO. 118
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.179
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY COSTA, STREET, SAVAL, COMITTA, KEARNEY, FONTANA,
HUGHES, SCHWANK, COLLETT, TARTAGLIONE, HAYWOOD AND KANE,
JANUARY 24, 2025
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, JANUARY 24, 2025
AN ACT
Amending the act of August 15, 1961 (P.L.987, No.442), entitled
"An act relating to public works contracts; providing for
prevailing wages; imposing duties upon the Secretary of Labor
and Industry; providing remedies, penalties and repealing
existing laws," further providing for remedies and penalties.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 11(e) of the act of August 15, 1961
(P.L.987, No.442), known as the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage
Act, is amended to read:
Section 11. Remedies and Penalties.--* * *
(e) (1) In the event that the secretary shall determine,
after notice and hearing as required by this section, that any
person or firm has failed to pay the prevailing wages and that
[such] the failure was intentional, [ he] the secretary shall
[thereupon] notify all public bodies of the name [ or names] of
[such persons or firms ] the person or firm and no contract shall
be awarded to [such persons or firms ] the person or firm or to
any firm, corporation or partnership in which [ such persons or
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19 firms have] the person or firm has an interest until [ three
years have elapsed] the following duration of debarment has been
satisfied from the date of the notice to the public bodies
[aforesaid.]:
(i) Three years, when the amount that the person or firm
failed to pay is less than one million dollars ($1,000,000).
(ii) Five years, when the amount that the person or firm
failed to pay is greater than one million dollars ($1,000,000)
but less than ten million dollars ($10,000,000).
(iii) Ten years, when the amount that the person or firm
failed to pay is greater than ten million dollars ($10,000,000).
(2) The secretary [may] shall, in addition [thereto] to
paragraph (1), request the Attorney General to proceed to
recover the penalties for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which
are payable under subsection (f) of this section.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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