Bill Text: IL SB0959 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that "public utility company" means: (1) a privately owned public utility as defined and regulated under the Public Utilities Act; (2) a public utility that is owned and operated by any political subdivision, public institution of higher education, or municipal corporation of this State; or (3) a public utility that is owned by a political subdivision, public institution of higher education, or municipal corporation and operated, wholly or in part, by any of its lessees or operating agents. Makes other changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB0959 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB0959-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB0959 Introduced 2/7/2017, by Sen. Jason A. Barickman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 130/2 from Ch. 48, par. 39s-2
Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that "public utility company" means: (1) a privately owned public utility as defined and regulated under the Public Utilities Act; (2) a public utility that is owned and operated by any political subdivision, public institution of higher education, or municipal corporation of this State; or (3) a public utility that is owned by a political subdivision, public institution of higher education, or municipal corporation and operated, wholly or in part, by any of its lessees or operating agents. Makes other changes.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
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 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
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

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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 Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity 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; and (iii) all projects undertaken under a public-private
agreement under the Public-Private Partnerships for
Transportation 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

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under Section 5.5(a)(3)(E) of the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act.
"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. "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,
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

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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.
"Public utility company" means: (1) a privately owned
public utility as defined and regulated under the Public
Utilities Act; (2) a public utility that is owned and operated
by any political subdivision, public institution of higher
education, or municipal corporation of this State; or (3) a
public utility that is owned by a political subdivision, public
institution of higher education, or municipal corporation and
operated, wholly or in part, by any of its lessees or operating
agents. "Lessees or operating agents" includes any person or
entity operating a publicly owned utility, wholly or in part,

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under a lease or contract and, with the public owner of the
utility, is a public utility company.
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. 97-502, eff. 8-23-11; 98-109, eff. 7-25-13;
98-482, eff. 1-1-14; 98-740, eff. 7-16-14; 98-756, eff.
7-16-14.)