SB 626

Under current law, a city, village, town, or county may not enact and administer

an ordinance establishing a living wage (local living wage ordinance), which is

defined under current law as compensation sufficient to enable an employee to

maintain himself or herself under conditions consistent with his or her welfare.

Current law, however, exempts from that prohibition an ordinance that requires an

employee of a county, city, village, or town, an employee who performs work under

a contract for the provision of services to a county, city, village, or town, or an

employee who performs work that is funded by financial assistance from a county,

city, village, or town to be paid at a minimum wage rate specified in the ordinance.

This bill provides that a local living wage ordinance is preempted with respect

to an employee who performs work that is funded, in whole or in part, with funds of

the state or federal funds passing through the state treasury.

Under current law, no local governmental unit may require, as a condition of

employment, that any employee or prospective employee reside within any

jurisdictional limit.

This bill prohibits a local governmental unit from requiring that any laborer,

worker, mechanic, or truck driver employed on a project of public works to which the

prevailing wage law applies who performs work that is funded, in whole or in part,

with funds of this state or federal funds passing through the state treasury reside

within any jurisdictional limit. Generally, the prevailing wage law applies to any

single-trade project of public works for which the estimated project cost of

completion is $48,000 or more and to any multiple-trade project of public works for

which the estimated project cost of completion is $100,000 or more.