BILL NUMBER: SB 7	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Steinberg

                        DECEMBER 3, 2012

   An act to amend Section 1724 of the Labor Code, relating to public
works.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 7, as introduced, Steinberg. Public works: where performed.
   Existing law requires that, except as specified, not less than the
general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar
character in the locality in which the public work is performed,
determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, as specified, be
paid to workers employed on public works projects. Existing law
defines the locality in which a public work is performed as the
county in which the public work is done, in cases in which the
contract is awarded by the state, and as the limits of the political
subdivision on whose behalf the contract is awarded, in other cases.
   This bill would instead define the locality in which a public work
is performed as the county in which the public work is done.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1724 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   1724.  "Locality in which public work is performed" means the
county in which the public work is done  in cases in which
the contract is awarded by the State, and means the limits of the
political subdivision on whose behalf the contract is awarded in
other cases  .