Bill Amendment: IL HB3370 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

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Bill Title: PREVAILING WAGE-POWER WASHING

Status: 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0346 [HB3370 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3370-Senate_Amendment_001.html

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Sen. Cristina Castro

Filed: 4/17/2023

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3370
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3370 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Prevailing Wage Act is amended by changing
Section 2 as follows:
(820 ILCS 130/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 39s-2)
Sec. 2. This Act applies to the wages of laborers,
mechanics and other workers employed in any public works, as
hereinafter defined, by any public body and to anyone under
contracts for public works. This includes any maintenance,
repair, assembly, or disassembly work performed on equipment
whether owned, leased, or rented.
As used in this Act, unless the context indicates
otherwise:
"Public works" means all fixed works constructed or
demolished by any public body, or paid for wholly or in part

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out of public funds. "Public works" as defined herein includes
all projects financed in whole or in part with bonds, grants,
loans, or other funds made available by or through the State or
any of its political subdivisions, including but not limited
to: bonds issued under the Industrial Project Revenue Bond Act
(Article 11, Division 74 of the Illinois Municipal Code), the
Industrial Building Revenue Bond Act, the Illinois Finance
Authority Act, the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act,
or the Build Illinois Bond Act; loans or other funds made
available pursuant to the Build Illinois Act; loans or other
funds made available pursuant to the Riverfront Development
Fund under Section 10-15 of the River Edge Redevelopment Zone
Act; or funds from the Fund for Illinois' Future under Section
6z-47 of the State Finance Act, funds for school construction
under Section 5 of the General Obligation Bond Act, funds
authorized under Section 3 of the School Construction Bond
Act, funds for school infrastructure under Section 6z-45 of
the State Finance Act, and funds for transportation purposes
under Section 4 of the General Obligation Bond Act. "Public
works" also includes (i) all projects financed in whole or in
part with funds from the Environmental Protection Agency under
the Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program Act for which
there is no project labor agreement; (ii) all work performed
pursuant to a public private agreement under the Public
Private Agreements for the Illiana Expressway Act or the
Public-Private Agreements for the South Suburban Airport Act;

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(iii) all projects undertaken under a public-private agreement
under the Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act;
and (iv) all transportation facilities undertaken under a
design-build contract or a Construction Manager/General
Contractor contract under the Innovations for Transportation
Infrastructure Act. "Public works" also includes all projects
at leased facility property used for airport purposes under
Section 35 of the Local Government Facility Lease Act. "Public
works" also includes the construction of a new wind power
facility by a business designated as a High Impact Business
under Section 5.5(a)(3)(E) and the construction of a new
utility-scale solar power facility by a business designated as
a High Impact Business under Section 5.5(a)(3)(E-5) of the
Illinois Enterprise Zone Act. "Public works" also includes
electric vehicle charging station projects financed pursuant
to the Electric Vehicle Act and renewable energy projects
required to pay the prevailing wage pursuant to the Illinois
Power Agency Act. "Public works" also includes power washing
projects by a public body or paid for wholly or in part out of
public funds in which steam or pressurized water, with or
without added abrasives or chemicals, is used to remove paint
or other coatings, oils or grease, corrosion, or debris from a
surface or to prepare a surface for a coating. "Public works"
does not include work done directly by any public utility
company, whether or not done under public supervision or
direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of public funds.

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"Public works" also includes construction projects performed
by a third party contracted by any public utility, as
described in subsection (a) of Section 2.1, in public
rights-of-way, as defined in Section 21-201 of the Public
Utilities Act, whether or not done under public supervision or
direction, or paid for wholly or in part out of public funds.
"Public works" also includes construction projects that exceed
15 aggregate miles of new fiber optic cable, performed by a
third party contracted by any public utility, as described in
subsection (b) of Section 2.1, in public rights-of-way, as
defined in Section 21-201 of the Public Utilities Act, whether
or not done under public supervision or direction, or paid for
wholly or in part out of public funds. "Public works" also
includes any corrective action performed pursuant to Title XVI
of the Environmental Protection Act for which payment from the
Underground Storage Tank Fund is requested. "Public works"
does not include projects undertaken by the owner at an
owner-occupied single-family residence or at an owner-occupied
unit of a multi-family residence. "Public works" does not
include work performed for soil and water conservation
purposes on agricultural lands, whether or not done under
public supervision or paid for wholly or in part out of public
funds, done directly by an owner or person who has legal
control of those lands.
"Construction" means all work on public works involving
laborers, workers or mechanics. This includes any maintenance,

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repair, assembly, or disassembly work performed on equipment
whether owned, leased, or rented.
"Locality" means the county where the physical work upon
public works is performed, except (1) that if there is not
available in the county a sufficient number of competent
skilled laborers, workers and mechanics to construct the
public works efficiently and properly, "locality" includes any
other county nearest the one in which the work or construction
is to be performed and from which such persons may be obtained
in sufficient numbers to perform the work and (2) that, with
respect to contracts for highway work with the Department of
Transportation of this State, "locality" may at the discretion
of the Secretary of the Department of Transportation be
construed to include two or more adjacent counties from which
workers may be accessible for work on such construction.
"Public body" means the State or any officer, board or
commission of the State or any political subdivision or
department thereof, or any institution supported in whole or
in part by public funds, and includes every county, city,
town, village, township, school district, irrigation, utility,
reclamation improvement or other district and every other
political subdivision, district or municipality of the state
whether such political subdivision, municipality or district
operates under a special charter or not.
"Labor organization" means an organization that is the
exclusive representative of an employer's employees recognized

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or certified pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act.
The terms "general prevailing rate of hourly wages",
"general prevailing rate of wages" or "prevailing rate of
wages" when used in this Act mean the hourly cash wages plus
annualized fringe benefits for training and apprenticeship
programs approved by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of
Apprenticeship and Training, health and welfare, insurance,
vacations and pensions paid generally, in the locality in
which the work is being performed, to employees engaged in
work of a similar character on public works.
(Source: P.A. 102-9, eff. 1-1-22; 102-444, eff. 8-20-21;
102-673, eff. 11-30-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22; 102-1094, eff.
6-15-22.)".