Bill Text: IL SB2881 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that by passage of a resolution, the board of education of any school district may exempt all school construction projects undertaken in the district from the requirements of the Prevailing Wage Act. Defines "school construction project".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB2881 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB2881-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 SB2881 Introduced 2/1/2012, by Sen. Kyle McCarter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 130/2 from Ch. 48, par. 39s-2
820 ILCS 130/11c new
Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that by passage of a resolution, the board of education of any school district may exempt all school construction projects undertaken in the district from the requirements of the Prevailing Wage Act. Defines "school construction project".
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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 2 and by adding Section 11c as follows:
(820 ILCS 130/2) (from Ch. 48, par. 39s-2)
Sec. 2. This Act applies to the wages of laborers,
mechanics and other workers employed in any public works, as
hereinafter defined, by any public body and to anyone under
contracts for public works. This includes any maintenance,
repair, assembly, or disassembly work performed on equipment
whether owned, leased, or rented.
As used in this Act, unless the context indicates
otherwise:
"Public works" means all fixed works constructed or
demolished by any public body, or paid for wholly or in part
out of public funds. "Public works" as defined herein includes
all projects financed in whole or in part with bonds, grants,
loans, or other funds made available by or through the State or
any of its political subdivisions, including but not limited
to: bonds issued under the Industrial Project Revenue Bond Act
(Article 11, Division 74 of the Illinois Municipal Code), the
Industrial Building Revenue Bond Act, the Illinois Finance

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Authority Act, the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act, or
the Build Illinois Bond Act; loans or other funds made
available pursuant to the Build Illinois Act; or funds from the
Fund for Illinois' Future under Section 6z-47 of the State
Finance Act, funds for school construction under Section 5 of
the General Obligation Bond Act, funds authorized under Section
3 of the School Construction Bond Act, funds for school
infrastructure under Section 6z-45 of the State Finance Act,
and funds for transportation purposes under Section 4 of the
General Obligation Bond Act. "Public works" also includes (i)
all projects financed in whole or in part with funds from the
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity under the
Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program Act for which
there is no project labor agreement; (ii) all work performed
pursuant to a public private agreement under the Public Private
Agreements for the Illiana Expressway Act; and (iii) all
projects undertaken under a public-private agreement under the
Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act. "Public
works" also includes all projects at leased facility property
used for airport purposes under Section 35 of the Local
Government Facility Lease Act. "Public works" also includes the
construction of a new wind power facility by a business
designated as a High Impact Business under Section 5.5(a)(3)(E)
of the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act. "Public works" does not
include work done directly by any public utility company,
whether or not done under public supervision or direction, or

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paid for wholly or in part out of public funds. "Public works"
does not include projects undertaken by the owner at an
owner-occupied single-family residence or at an owner-occupied
unit of a multi-family residence.
"School construction project" means the acquisition,
development, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation,
improvement, architectural planning, and installation of
capital facilities consisting of buildings, structures,
durable equipment, and land for educational purposes.
"Construction" means all work on public works involving
laborers, workers or mechanics. This includes any maintenance,
repair, assembly, or disassembly work performed on equipment
whether owned, leased, or rented.
"Locality" means the county where the physical work upon
public works is performed, except (1) that if there is not
available in the county a sufficient number of competent
skilled laborers, workers and mechanics to construct the public
works efficiently and properly, "locality" includes any other
county nearest the one in which the work or construction is to
be performed and from which such persons may be obtained in
sufficient numbers to perform the work and (2) that, with
respect to contracts for highway work with the Department of
Transportation of this State, "locality" may at the discretion
of the Secretary of the Department of Transportation be
construed to include two or more adjacent counties from which
workers may be accessible for work on such construction.

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"Public body" means the State or any officer, board or
commission of the State or any political subdivision or
department thereof, or any institution supported in whole or in
part by public funds, and includes every county, city, town,
village, township, school district, irrigation, utility,
reclamation improvement or other district and every other
political subdivision, district or municipality of the state
whether such political subdivision, municipality or district
operates under a special charter or not.
The terms "general prevailing rate of hourly wages",
"general prevailing rate of wages" or "prevailing rate of
wages" when used in this Act mean the hourly cash wages plus
fringe benefits for training and apprenticeship programs
approved by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of
Apprenticeship and Training, health and welfare, insurance,
vacations and pensions paid generally, in the locality in which
the work is being performed, to employees engaged in work of a
similar character on public works.
(Source: P.A. 96-28, eff. 7-1-09; 96-58, eff. 1-1-10; 96-186,
eff. 1-1-10; 96-913, eff. 6-9-10; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10; 97-502,
eff. 8-23-11.)
(820 ILCS 130/11c new)
Sec. 11c. School district exemption.
By passage of a resolution, the board of education of any
school district may exempt all school construction projects

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undertaken in the district from the requirements of this Act.