An exemption from the prevailing wage law for a public works project that is not less than 85 percent privately funded in which the completed facility is dedicated to the state or a local governmental unit for conservation, recreational, or educational purposes

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

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.

Who's behind it

5 senators are its authors⁠. All 5 are Republicans.

33 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.

What it would cost

State agencies filed a cost estimate. Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

• Fiscal Estimate From DWD