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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 101

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Representatives Walk, Patrick, Wang, Walker, Lux, Vekich, Fisch, Winsley and Todd

Read first time 1/16/87 and referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.

AN ACT Relating to prevailing wages on public works contracts; and amending RCW 39.12.020.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 63, Laws of 1945 as last amended by section 1, chapter 130, Laws of 1982 and RCW 39.12.020 are each amended to read as follows:

          The hourly wages to be paid to laborers, workmen 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.  This section shall also apply to all public works and all public building service maintenance contracts for work performed outside the state of Washington.  The prevailing rate of wage shall be that rate which is the average prevailing wage in the state of Washington as determined by the industrial statistician of the department of labor and industries.  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 workmen 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.