Bill Text: IL HB1230 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning findings of the Department of Labor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-23 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1230 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB1230-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB1230 Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 130/7 from Ch. 48, par. 39s-7
Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning findings of the Department of Labor.
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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 7 as follows:
(820 ILCS 130/7) (from Ch. 48, par. 39s-7)
Sec. 7. The The finding of the Department of Labor
ascertaining and declaring the general prevailing rate of
hourly wages shall be final for all purposes of the contract
for public work then being considered, unless reviewed under
the provisions of this Act. Nothing in this Act, however,
shall be construed to prohibit the payment to any laborer,
worker or mechanic employed on any public work, as aforesaid,
of more than the prevailing rate of wages; provided further
that nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the hours
of work which may be performed by any person in any particular
period of time.
(Source: P.A. 100-1177, eff. 6-1-19.)