Bill Text: TX HB633 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain data collected by the Texas Workforce Commission to determine general prevailing wage rates for certain public work contracts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-13 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB633 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB633-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Morrison | H.B. No. 633 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 633: | |||
By: Paddie | C.S.H.B. No. 633 |
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relating to the use of certain data collected by the Texas Workforce | ||
Commission to determine general prevailing wage rates for certain | ||
public work contracts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2258.022(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) For a contract for a public work awarded by a political | ||
subdivision of the state, the public body shall determine the | ||
general prevailing rate of per diem wages in the locality in which | ||
the public work is to be performed for each craft or type of worker | ||
needed to execute the contract and the prevailing rate for legal | ||
holiday and overtime work by: | ||
(1) conducting a survey of the wages received by | ||
classes of workers employed on projects of a character similar to | ||
the contract work in the political subdivision of the state in which | ||
the public work is to be performed; [ |
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(2) using the prevailing wage rate as determined by | ||
the United States Department of Labor in accordance with the | ||
Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. Section 3141 [ |
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subsequent amendments; or | ||
(3) if each county in which the public work is located | ||
has a population of less than one million, using the most recent | ||
data, as of the time when the political subdivision submitted the | ||
public work for bids or requested proposals, compiled by the Texas | ||
Workforce Commission's Labor Market and Career Information | ||
Department, including occupational employment statistics wage data | ||
for: | ||
(A) the local workforce development area or | ||
metropolitan statistical area relating to the locality in which the | ||
public work is performed; or | ||
(B) the state, but only if there is no data | ||
available for the relevant local workforce development area or the | ||
metropolitan statistical area for the specific occupation, as | ||
classified by the United States Office of Management and Budget in | ||
the North American Industry Classification System, for which data | ||
is sought. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a public work contract entered into or renewed on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |