Bill Text: CT SB00126 | 2013 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: An Act Increasing The Threshold Amount For Public Works Projects Subject To Prevailing Wage Laws.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-11 - Referred to Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees [SB00126 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-SB00126-Introduced.html

General Assembly

 

Proposed Bill No. 126

 

January Session, 2013

 

LCO No. 506

   

Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES

 

Introduced by:

 

SEN. MARKLEY, 16th Dist.

 

AN ACT INCREASING THE THRESHOLD AMOUNT FOR PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS SUBJECT TO PREVAILING WAGE LAWS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That section 31-53 of the general statutes be amended to increase the threshold amount for public works projects that are required to adhere to prevailing wage laws to eight hundred thousand dollars for new construction and two hundred thousand dollars for remodeling.

Statement of Purpose:

To provide local tax relief by doubling the current threshold amounts that determine when public works projects must abide by prevailing wage laws.

feedback