Bill Text: NJ A4317 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain bidders for prevailing wage public work to provide proof that the prevailing wage will be paid.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-27 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee [A4317 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-A4317-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4317

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 27, 2013

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  TROY SINGLETON

District 7 (Burlington)

Assemblyman  WAYNE P. DEANGELO

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblywoman  BONNIE WATSON COLEMAN

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Cryan and Assemblywoman Lampitt

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires certain bidders for prevailing wage public work to provide proof that the prevailing wage will be paid.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning certain contracts for public work and supplementing P.L.1963, c.150 (C.34:11-56.25 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    If a person makes the lowest bid for a contract with a public body for public work subject to the provisions of the "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act," P.L.1963, c.150 (C.34:11-56.25 et seq.) and that bid is ten percent or more lower than the next lowest bid for the contract, the person making the lowest bid shall provide proof to the satisfaction of the public body that the prevailing wage rates required by that act shall be paid.  If the bidder does not provide the proof, the bid shall be rejected.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that if a person makes the lowest bid for a contract with a public body for public work subject to the provisions of the "New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act," P.L.1963, c.150 (C.34:11-56.25 et seq.) and that bid is ten percent or more lower than the next lowest bid for the contract, the person making the lowest bid shall provide proof to the satisfaction of the public body that the prevailing wage rates required by that act shall be paid.  The bill requires the bid to be rejected if the bidder does not provide that proof.