Today's Law As Amended


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SB-1993 Public works projects: Water Security, Clean Drinking Water, Coastal and Beach Protection Act of 2002.(2001-2002)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.
 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1) Payment of the prevailing rate of per diem wages to workers employed on public works projects is necessary to attract the most skilled workers for those projects and to ensure that work of the highest quality is performed on those projects.
(2) Public works projects should never undermine the wage base in a community and requiring that workers on public works projects are paid the prevailing rate of per diem wages ensures that wage base is not lowered.
(3) It is a matter of statewide concern that every public agency in California pay the prevailing rate of per diem wages to workers employed on public works projects undertaken by those public agencies.
(b) Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting Section 2 of this act, that every public agency in California pay the prevailing rate of per diem wages to workers employed on public works projects undertaken by that public agency.

SEC. 2.

 Section 1771.8 is added to the Labor Code, to read:

1771.8.
 (a) The body awarding any contract for a public works project financed in any part with funds made available by the Water Security, Clean Drinking Water, Coastal and Beach Protection Act of 2002 (Division 26.5 (commencing with Section 79500) of the Water Code) shall adopt and enforce, or contract with a third party to adopt and enforce, a labor compliance program pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1771.5 for application to that public works project.
(b) This section shall become operative only if the Water Security, Clean Drinking Water, Coastal and Beach Protection Act of 2002 (Division 26.5 (commencing with Section 79500) of the Water Code) is approved by the voters at the November 5, 2002, statewide general election.