Bill Text: NJ A3089 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Concerns prevailing wage payment in certain housing projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-14 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee [A3089 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A3089-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman TROY SINGLETON
District 7 (Burlington)
SYNOPSIS
Concerns prevailing wage payment in certain housing projects.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the prevailing wage and certain housing projects and amending P.L.1983, c.530.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 42 of P.L.1983, c.530 (C.55:14K-42) is amended to read as follows:
42. Each qualified housing sponsor granted a loan directly from the agency or indirectly from an institutional lender, or any builder, contractor or subcontractor engaged by the qualified housing sponsor for the construction or rehabilitation of any housing project, shall pay the workmen employed in the performance of any contract for such construction or rehabilitation not less than the prevailing wage rate. The prevailing wage rate shall be determined by the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development in all cases, except that the prevailing rate shall be determined by the Secretary of the United States Department of Labor in accordance with [the Davis-Bacon Act as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a to 276a-5)] 40 U.S.C. ss.3141-3144, 3146, 3147, when the loan from the agency for the construction or rehabilitation of a housing project or the tenants of the housing project is the subject of direct or indirect federal assistance other than the federal tax exemption of the interest paid on the agency obligations.
The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development is authorized to, and shall, determine the prevailing wage rate and shall establish the prevailing wage in the locality in which the construction or rehabilitation of any housing project is to be performed for each craft or trade or classification of all workmen employed in the performance of such construction or rehabilitation, as if such construction or rehabilitation were "public work" within the meaning of P. L.1963, c.150 (34:11-56.25 et seq.). For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section, the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development and any workmen employed in the performance of any contract for the construction or rehabilitation of any housing project, shall have and may exercise or perform any right, power or duty granted or imposed upon them by P.L.1963, c. 150.
For the purposes of this section, "housing project" means any work or undertaking, other than a continuing-care community, whether new construction, improvement, rehabilitation, or acquisition of existing buildings or units which is designed for the primary purpose of providing multi-family or single-family housing or acquisition of sites for future multi-family or single-family housing.
(cf: P.L.1983, c.530, s.42)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill modifies the scope of the application of prevailing wage requirements to New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency-supported projects, by adding to projects subject to those requirements any project which receives a loan indirectly through an institutional lender or any agency project which involves work on multi-family or single-family homes.
