BILL NUMBER: SB 978	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Vidak

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2016

   An act to amend Section 1170 of the Labor Code, relating to public
works.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 978, as introduced, Vidak. Public works: prevailing wage.
   Existing law requires the body awarding any contract for public
work, or otherwise undertaking any public work, to obtain the general
prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate
for holiday and overtime work in the locality in which the public
work is to be performed for each craft, classification, or type of
worker needed to execute the contract from the Director of Industrial
Relations. Existing law requires the director to determine the
general prevailing rate of per diem wages in accordance with
specified standards.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   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 1770 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   1770.  The Director of  the Department of 
Industrial Relations shall determine the general prevailing rate of
per diem wages in accordance with the standards set forth in Section
 1773, and the   1773. The  director's
determination in the matter shall be final except as provided in
Section 1773.4  . Nothing in this article, however, 
 .However, this article  shall  not  prohibit the
payment of more than the general prevailing rate of wages to any
 workman   worker  employed on public work.
 Nothing in this   This  act shall 
not  permit any overtime work in violation of Article 3 
of this chapter.   (commencing with Section 1810).