HB 576 -- Prevailing Wage

Co-Sponsors:  Hunter, Ruestman, Wilson (130), Bean, Guest,
Morris, Stevenson, Jetton, Hobbs

This bill:

(1)  Excludes decorating, maintenance, replacement, or repairs
and public works projects with a total cost of less than $150,000
from the prevailing wage law;

(2)  Restricts the application of the prevailing wage law to
actual construction only and to public works that are fixed works
that are both constructed for public use or benefit and directly
paid for wholly or in part out of public funds;

(3)  Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to
determine the schedule of prevailing hourly wages by occupational
title as claimed by each union attached to and made part of the
specifications for the work.  Where no wages are reported for a
particular locality, the wage rate will be 1.5 times the most
recent hourly wage rate for the locality as published on or
before March 10 of each year by the Missouri Economic Research
Center or its successor.  These rates must be included in the
advertising of bids;

(4)  Allows an interested party to report an alleged violation of
the prevailing wage law to the contracting public body, who in
turn, must report any alleged violation to the department.  The
department must investigate and either confirm or dismiss the
complaint.  Upon confirmation of a violation, the public body
must withhold and retain only the sum due as a result of a
confirmed violation;

(5)  Removes the requirement for contractors and subcontractors
engaged in construction of public works of keeping records with
the names of every workman employed by them in connection with
the public work and the requirement to have signs on all vehicles
or at the entrance of a work site; and

(6)  Limits violations of the prevailing wage law to willful
violations.

Missouri House of Representatives
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