BILL NUMBER: SB 145	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        FEBRUARY 1, 2011

   An act to amend Section 1770 of the Labor Code, relating to public
works.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 145, as introduced, Wyland. Public works: prevailing wage
rates.
   Existing law requires, except for public works projects of $1,000
or less, that workers employed on public works be paid not less than
the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar
character in the locality that the public work is performed, and not
less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday
and overtime work fixed, as prescribed. Existing law requires the
Director of Industrial Relations to determine the general prevailing
rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in the
locality in which the public work is to be performed, and the general
prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday and overtime work.
Existing law requires the body awarding a contract for public work to
obtain from the Director of Industrial Relations the general
prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in
the locality in which the public work is to be performed, and the
general prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday and overtime
work.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
provisions relating to the prevailing rate of per diem wages.
   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 director's determination in the matter shall be final
except as provided in Section 1773.4. Nothing in this article,
however, shall prohibit the payment of more than the general
prevailing rate of wages to  any workman   a
worker  employed on public work. Nothing in this act shall
permit any overtime work in violation of Article 3  of this
chapter   (commencing with Section 1810)  .