Bill Text: DE HB6 | 2013-2014 | 147th General Assembly | Draft
Bill Title: An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Prevailing Wage Requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-15 - Introduced and Assigned to House Administration Committee in House [HB6 Detail]
Download: Delaware-2013-HB6-Draft.html
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SPONSOR: |
Rep. Briggs King & Sen. Simpson; |
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Reps. D. Short, Hudson, Dukes, Kenton, Miro, Ramone, Wilson; Sens. Hocker, Lavelle, Lopez, Pettyjohn |
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 147th GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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HOUSE BILL NO. 6 |
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AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PREVAILING WAGE REQUIREMENTS. |
Section 1.Amend §6960, Chapter 69, Title 29 of the Delaware Code by making insertions as shown by underlining and deletions as shown by strikethrough as follows:
(a) The specifications for every contract or aggregate
of contracts relating to a public works project in excess of $100,000 $350,000
for new construction (including painting and decorating) or $15,000$100,000 for alteration, repair,
renovation, rehabilitation, demolition or reconstruction (including painting
and decorating of buildings or works) to which this State or any subdivision
thereof is a party and for which the State appropriated any part of the funds
and which requires or involves the employment of mechanics and/or laborers
shall contain a provision stating the minimum wages to be paid various classes
of laborers and mechanics which shall be based upon the wages that will be
determined by the Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Industrial Affairs,
to be prevailing in the county in which the work is to be performed. The
Delaware Department of Labor, Division of Industrial Affairs shall establish
the prevailing wage for each respective craft or class of laborers and
mechanics at the same rates established in collective bargaining agreements
between labor organizations and their employers that govern work of a similar
nature and similar crafts or classes of laborers and mechanics for the county
where the public works contract will be performed if that particular labor
organization's collective bargaining rate prevailed and they participated in
the survey, for that particular trade or craft in that particular county for 2
consecutive years. The agreed rate of pay designated by the craft's collective
bargaining agreement will become the prevailing wage for a period of 5 years
and the raise be determined by the collective bargaining agreement rate at the
time the prevailing wage survey is conducted for that craft, county, and year.
If the prevailing wage cannot be reasonably and fairly determined in any
locality because no such agreements exists or the collective bargaining rate
has not prevailed for 2 consecutive years the Department shall use the
prevailing wage as established by the Department's annual prevailing wage
survey. There will be a 1-time challenge of the prevailing wage rate per cycle
as in the Department regulations. All other provisions of this law are to
remain unchanged.
SYNOPSIS
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This bill raises the dollar thresholds for public works projects subject to the prevailing wage requirement to $350,000 for new construction and $100,000 for alteration, repair, renovation, rehabilitation, demolition or reconstruction.Neither of these figures have been adjusted since 1994. |
