Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF1848

Authorizing the commissioner of administration to debar or suspend vendors from
contract work as a prime contractors, subcontractors, agents or material
suppliers on state funded contracts; clarifying commissioner of labor and
industry responsibility for highway contracts and hours of labor prevailing
wages oversight, authorizing commissioner records examination and compliance
orders issuance, authorizing employee civil actions and district court
jurisdiction, requiring employer payment to employee for court costs and
attorney fees; defining serious contract violation, governmental entity, laborer
or mechanic, contracting authority, contractor and contract under department of
labor and industry prevailing wage provisions; modifying prevailing wage rate,
hours of labor and contract requirements, modifying commissioner of labor and
industry prevailing wage rates determination, penalty, department investigation
and prevailing wage rate violations reporting, notice and attorney general
action; providing fringe benefit programs recovery by contractors,
subcontractors and agents as approved by the commissioner, requiring records and
permitting fines for violations; applying prevailing wage law to transportation
contracts under delegated department of transportation (DOT) oversight,
requiring the department of labor and industry to develop, maintain and publish
classification definitions for use on DOT contracts, specifying DOT
responsibilities, authorizing DOT civil enforcement actions, requiring DOT
commissioner debarring of contractors in violation, specifying DOT contracting
authority requirements; providing for investigations and subpoenas and
prescribing powers, duties and responsibilities to the commissioners of labor
and industry and DOT; authorizing laborers and mechanics to bring civil actions
to district court; specifying contractor liability, district court jurisdiction,
persons who may sue, discovery allowed, attorney fees and costs and civil
penalty; requiring municipal contracting law compliance with respect to debarred
entities; requiring performance bond compliance and modifying limit of time to
bring action provision with regard to contractors
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