AB86: Bill Text

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2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE

2013 Assembly BILL 86

March 22, 2013 - Introduced by Representatives Jacque, Tittl, Bernier, Bies, Kapenga, Knodl, Nass, A. Ott, Sanfelippo, Schraa, Strachota and Thiesfeldt, cosponsored by Senator Grothman. Referred to Committee on Energy and Utilities.

AB86,1,3 An Act to create 66.0903 (5) (h) and 103.49 (3g) (i) of the statutes; relating to: an exemption from the prevailing wage law for a public works project that is intended to facilitate the reuse of a vacant or underutilized industrial facility.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on the site of certain state or local projects of public works (generally single-trade projects whose estimated cost of completion is $48,000 or more and multiple-trade projects whose estimated cost of completion is $100,000 or more) must be paid at the rate paid for a majority of the hours worked in the person's trade or occupation in the county in which the project is located, as determined by the Department of Workforce Development (prevailing wage law).

This bill exempts from the prevailing wage law a project of public works that is intended to facilitate the reuse of a vacant or underutilized industrial facility.

For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB86,1 Section 1. 66.0903 (5) (h) of the statutes is created to read:

AB86,2,2 66.0903 (5) (h) A project of public works that is intended to facilitate the reuse of a vacant or underutilized industrial facility.

AB86,2 Section 2. 103.49 (3g) (i) of the statutes is created to read:

AB86,2,5 103.49 (3g) (i) A project of public works that is intended to facilitate the reuse of a vacant or underutilized industrial facility.

AB86,3 Section 3. Initial applicability.

AB86,2,11 (1) Exemption from prevailing wage law. This act first applies, with respect to a project of public works that is subject to bidding, to a project for which the request for bids is issued on the effective date of this subsection and, with respect to a project of public works that is not subject to bidding, to a project the contract for which is entered into on the effective date of this subsection.

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