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                         SENATE BILL 5345

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senators Cantu, McCaslin, Hochstatter, Deccio, Schow, Morton, Finkbeiner, West and A. Anderson

Read first time 01/20/95.  Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce & Trade.

Limiting the prevailing wage requirement for public works workers to those who work on the site.

    AN ACT Relating to limiting prevailing wage requirements to on-site work; and amending RCW 39.12.020 and 39.12.030.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 39.12.020 and 1989 c 12 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:

    The hourly wages to be paid to laborers, workers, or mechanics((, upon all)) employed directly on the site of 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 on monthly or per diem salary by the state, or any county, municipality, or political subdivision created by its laws.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 39.12.030 and 1989 c 12 s 9 are each amended to read as follows:

    The specifications for every contract for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair of any public work to which the state or any county, municipality, or political subdivision created by its laws is a party, shall contain a provision stating the hourly minimum rate of wage, not less than the prevailing rate of wage, which may be paid to laborers, workers, or mechanics in each trade or occupation required for such public work employed in the performance of the contract either by the contractor((,)) or subcontractor ((or other person doing or)) contracting to do the whole or any part of the work contemplated by the contract, and the contract shall contain a stipulation that such laborers, workers, or mechanics shall be paid not less than such specified hourly minimum rate of wage.

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