PREVAIL WAGE-WAIVER-$20,000

Session: 103rd General Assembly
Year: 2023
Bill #: SB1660
Category: Labor, Personnel and Pensions
Position: Under Review
Mandate?
Revenue Loss?
Authority Preemption?

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Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that the Act does not apply to wages paid to all laborers, workers, and mechanics employed by or on behalf of public body for work performed on a public works project with a total cost of $20,000 or less if the public body notifies the Department of Labor of each project for which the waiver is used within 60 days before commencing the project. Provides that the Department shall make available a form with which public bodies may make this notification. Provides that the Department shall submit an annual report detailing the number of projects for which the waiver was used in the preceding year, the total number of employees engaged in those projects, the total cost of those projects without using prevailing wage standards, the total cost of those projects using prevailing wage standards, and any other information the Department deems appropriate. Effective immediately.



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