AB 233

Under current law, laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed

on the site of certain state or local projects of public works (generally single-trade

projects whose estimated cost of completion is $48,000 or more and multiple-trade

projects whose estimated cost of completion is $100,000 or more): 1) must be paid at

the rate paid for a majority of the hours worked in the person's trade or occupation

in the county in which the project is located, as determined by the Department of

Workforce Development; and 2) may not be required or permitted to work a greater

number of hours per day and per week than the prevailing hours of labor, that is, no

more than 10 hours per day and 40 hours per week, unless they are paid 1.5 times

their basic rate of pay (commonly referred to as "overtime pay") for all hours worked

in excess of the prevailing hours of labor (prevailing wage law).

This bill exempts from the prevailing wage law a project of public works in

which not less than 85 percent of the estimated cost of project completion is privately

funded, the completed facility is dedicated to the state or a local governmental unit

without compensation for ownership by the state or local governmental unit, and the

completed facility is used for conservation, recreational, or educational purposes.