Bill Text: IL SB0197 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning findings of public bodies and the Department of Labor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB0197 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB0197-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB0197 Introduced 1/24/2017, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 130/7 from Ch. 48, par. 39s-7
Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning findings of public bodies and the Department of Labor.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning employment.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Prevailing Wage Act is amended by changing
Section 7 as follows:
(820 ILCS 130/7) (from Ch. 48, par. 39s-7)
Sec. 7. The The finding of the public body awarding the
contract or authorizing the work or the Department of Labor
ascertaining and declaring the general prevailing rate of
hourly wages shall be final for all purposes of the contract
for public work then being considered, unless reviewed under
the provisions of this Act. Nothing in this Act, however, shall
be construed to prohibit the payment to any laborer, worker or
mechanic employed on any public work, as aforesaid, of more
than the prevailing rate of wages; provided further that
nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the hours of
work which may be performed by any person in any particular
period of time.
(Source: P.A. 81-992.)