BILL REQ. #:  S-1420.1 

READ FIRST TIME 02/20/13.   

     AN ACT Relating to prevailing wages on certain rural school district projects; and amending RCW 39.12.020.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 39.12.020 and 2007 c 169 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     The hourly wages to be paid to laborers, workers, or mechanics, upon all public works and under all public building service maintenance contracts of the state or any county, municipality or political subdivision created by its laws, shall be not less than the prevailing rate of wage for an hour's work in the same trade or occupation in the locality within the state where such labor is performed. For a contract in excess of ten thousand dollars, a contractor required to pay the prevailing rate of wage shall post in a location readily visible to workers at the job site: PROVIDED, That on road construction, sewer line, pipeline, transmission line, street, or alley improvement projects for which no field office is needed or established, a contractor may post the prevailing rate of wage statement at the contractor's local office, gravel crushing, concrete, or asphalt batch plant as long as the contractor provides a copy of the wage statement to any employee on request:
     (1) A copy of a statement of intent to pay prevailing wages approved by the industrial statistician of the department of labor and industries under RCW 39.12.040; and
     (2) The address and telephone number of the industrial statistician of the department of labor and industries where a complaint or inquiry concerning prevailing wages may be made.
     This chapter shall not apply to workers or other persons regularly employed by the state, or any county, municipality, or political subdivision created by its laws. This chapter does not apply to public works and public building service maintenance contracts of a rural school district. For the purposes of this chapter, rural school districts are those districts that are located in a county with a population less than fifty thousand and that have a total enrollment of less than four hundred students, excluding students receiving instruction through alternative learning experience online programs as defined in RCW 28A.150.262, as reported to the office of the superintendent of public instruction for the academic year immediately preceding the date the school district opens the public bidding process for the public works project or public building service maintenance contract.