Bill Text: WV SB695 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Discontinuing requirements pertaining to payment of wages to workers employed by public agency in construction of public improvements
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-22 - To Government Organization [SB695 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2016-SB695-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2016 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 695
By Senator Boso
[Introduced February
22, 2016;
Referred to the Committee on Government Organization.]
A BILL to repeal §21-5A-1, §21-5A-2, §21-5A-3, §21-5A-5, §21-5A-6, §21-5A-7, §21-5A-8, §21-5A-9 and §21-5A-11 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend and reenact §21-5A-10 of said code, relating to discontinuing the requirements pertaining to the payment of wages established by state law currently required to be paid to all workers employed by or on behalf of any public authority engaged in the construction of public improvements to take effect after April 1, 2016.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §21-5A-1, §21-5A-2, §21-5A-3, §21-5A-5, §21-5A-6, §21-5A-7, §21-5A-8, §21-5A-9 and §21-5A-11 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, be repealed; and that §21-5A-10 of said code be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
Article 5A. Wages for Construction of Public Improvements.
§21-5A-10. Existing contracts.
This article shall apply
only to contracts for construction on public improvements let after the
effective date of this article and to construction on public improvements for
which there has been determined, pursuant to section five of this article, the
fair minimum wage rates entered into after April 1, 2016.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to discontinue the requirements pertaining to the payment of wages established by state law currently required to be paid to all workers employed by or on behalf of any public authority engaged in the construction of public improvements or projects - to take effect after April 1, 2016.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
