AUTHOR: R
TITLE: Public works: prevailing wage.
SUMMARY: This bill requires a body awarding a public works contract to notify the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), within 30 days, of any changes or additions regarding the project registration that involve either a change in the identity of a contractor or subcontractor performing the work or a major change in the total amount of the contract. This bill exempts projects of awarding bodies operating labor compliance programs approved by DIR and covered by a valid project labor agreement.
STATUS: Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
POSITION: Support
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Public contracts: best value construction contracting for counties.
SUMMARY:听听 Expands a pilot program for the Counties of Alameda, Los Angeles, Monterey, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Yuba for best value procurement for construction projects in excess of one million to include all counties. The bill also extends the sunset date on the authorization for the program from January 1, 2025, to January 1, 2030.
STATUS:聽Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State – Chapter 58, Statutes of 2024.
POSITION:听听Active
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽School districts: public contracts.
SUMMARY:聽Increases the force account and bidding thresholds, from $15,000 to $34,500, for school districts. Also, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually raise the amounts to reflect the percentage change in the California Cost Consumer Price Index.
STATUS:听顿ead
POSITION:听听Oppose
AUTHOR:听听听搁
TITLE:聽Pupil services: local apprenticeship programs: notification of parents or guardians.
SUMMARY:聽This bill would require a school district to, at the beginning of the first semester or quarter of the regular school term, provide information on local state approved apprenticeship programs to the parents or guardians of students advancing to grades 11 and 12.
STATUS:聽Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State – Chapter 62, Statutes of 2024.
POSITION:听听Support
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Public works.
SUMMARY:聽This measure, would make current prevailing wage determinations applicable to public works projects at the time the work is performed. Under existing California law, DIR publishes prevailing wage determinations twice a year in February and in August and the wages required to be paid to workers on public works projects are determined by the prevailing wages that are published by DIR at the time of the projects bid advertisement date.
STATUS:听搁e-referred to Com. on APPR.
POSITION:听听Support
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Public agencies: cost accounting standards.
SUMMARY:聽Increases project cost limits specified in the California Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act (Act) and separates the negotiated contracts and purchase order limits from the force account limits. In addition, the bill broadens the California Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission鈥檚 authority to oversee enforce the Act to ensure that public agencies subject to the Act are following the Act鈥檚 procedures.
STATUS:听搁e-referred to Com. on APPR.
POSITION:听听Support
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Guaranteed Health Care for All.
SUMMARY:聽Would establish the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act and enact a framework of governance, benefits, program standards, and health care cost controls to implement a single-payer healthcare system in California. Notably absent from the bill is how the massive new bureaucracy will be funded. The Healthy California for All Commission estimated a single-payer healthcare system would cost the state over $500 billion annually. The bill doesn鈥檛 contain a carveout for industry sponsored labor and management health and welfare trusts, meaning our industry health and welfare trust would be dissolved if the measure were to become law.
STATUS:听顿ead
POSITION:听听Oppose
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Occupational safety and health: heat illness prevention certification.
SUMMARY:聽This bill would, commencing July 1, 2028, require an employee to obtain a heat illness prevention certification from the division within 30 days after the date of hire and to maintain a valid certification for the duration of their employment, renewing every three years. The bill would require the division to develop and make accessible the heat illness prevention certification process on its internet website by July 1, 2028.
STATUS:听顿ead
POSITION:听听Oppose
AB 2439
AUTHOR:听听Quirk-Silva听顿
TITLE:聽Public works: prevailing wages: access to records.
SUMMARY:听听Would have required an owner, developer, or the agent of an owner or developer, that receives public funds from a public agency to perform public works projects, to make available specified records to joint labor-management committees, multiemployer Taft-Hartley trust funds, and nonprofits established to ensure compliance within the building and construction trades.
STATUS:听顿ead
POSITION:听听Support
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Public works: prevailing wages.
SUMMARY:聽Current law requires that workers employed on public works be paid not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality that the public work is performed. Current law requires the Director of Industrial Relations to determine the applicable wage rates established by collective bargaining agreements within the locality and in the nearest labor market area. This bill would change prevailing wage law to state that if there is overlap in 鈥渃raft or classification鈥� in a CBA, the highest rate will prevail.
STATUS:听顿ead
POSITION:听听Oppose
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Contractors: license requirement exemptions: work and advertisements.
SUMMARY:聽The Contractors State License Law establishes the Contractors State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of contractors. Current law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to act as a contractor without a license, unless exempted. Current law exempts from the licensing requirement a work or operation on one undertaking or project by one or more contracts, if the aggregate contract price for labor, material, and all other items is under $500, except as specified. This bill would revise the licensing exemption by increasing the maximum aggregate contract price to $1,000, as adjusted for inflation by the board.
STATUS:听搁e-referred to Com. on APPR.
POSITION:听听Oppose -> Active
Note: Industry amendments taken to reduce limit from $5000 to $1000 & to remove the inflation adjustment forthcoming.
AUTHOR:听听听顿
罢滨罢尝贰:听Employer communications during nonworking hours.
厂鲍惭惭础搁驰:听This bill would require a public or private employer to establish a workplace policy that provides employees the right to disconnect from communications from the employer during nonworking hours. The bill would define the 鈥渞ight to disconnect鈥� to mean that, except for an emergency or for scheduling, an employee has the right to ignore communications from the employer during nonworking hours. The bill would require nonworking hours to be established by written agreement between an employer and employee. The bill would authorize an employee to file a complaint of a pattern of violation of the bill鈥檚 provisions with the Labor Commissioner, punishable by a civil penalty.
厂罢础罢鲍厂:听Dead
POSITION:听听Oppose
AB 3186
AUTHOR:听听Petrie-Norris听顿
罢滨罢尝贰:听Public works: prevailing wages: access to records.
厂鲍惭惭础搁驰:听Requires owners and developers that receives public funds from a public agency to develop a public works project to make records available within 10 days upon request by the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, multi-employer Taft-Hartley trust funds, and joint labor-management committees.聽 Records subject to release include requests for bids and submitted bid documents, final executed construction contracts, records of work performed and workers employed on the project, including a certified copy of payroll records, and if applicable, monthly reports regarding skilled and trained workforce.
厂罢础罢鲍厂:听Dead
POSITION:听听Support
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Public works.
SUMMARY:聽Subjects to public works law certain affordable housing projects by adding certain low-income housing tax credits to the definition of “paid for in whole or in part out of public funds,” and providing that specified projects built pursuant to certain low-income housing tax credits or a below-market interest rate loan with a state agency, redevelopment agency, successor agency to a redevelopment agency when acting in that capacity, or a local housing authority, are subject to public works requirements.
STATUS:听搁e-referred to Com. on APPR.
POSITION:听听Support
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Women in Construction Week.
SUMMARY:聽Would proclaim the week of March 3, 2024, to March 9, 2024, inclusive, as Women in Construction Week.
STATUS:聽Chaptered by Secretary of State – Chapter 43, Statutes of 2024
POSITION:听听Support
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽School facilities: design-build contracts.
SUMMARY:聽Current law, until January 1, 2025, authorizes a school district, with the approval of the governing board of the school district, to procure design-build contracts for public works projects in excess of $1,000,000, awarding the contract by low bid or best value. This bill would delete the provision making this authorization inoperative on January 1, 2025, thereby extending it indefinitely.
STATUS:听搁ead second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
POSITION:听听Active
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Public agencies: project labor agreements.
SUMMARY:聽Would require by January 1, 2027 that the Judicial Council of California and the California State University system identify and select at least three major state construction projects, that exceed a total estimated cost of $35 million each, to be subject to project labor agreements.
STATUS:听搁e-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
POSITION:听听Support
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Unemployment insurance: trade disputes: eligibility for benefits.
SUMMARY:聽This bill authorizes workers involved in a trade dispute to collect unemployment insurance benefits, after a two-week wait period, while they are on strike.
STATUS:听顿ead
POSITION:听听Oppose
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Public works.
厂鲍惭惭础搁驰:听This bill requires a private labor compliance entity or an awarding body to notify the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) and confer with negotiating parties as well as participate in a process authorizing the contractor to review and respond to the alleged violations prior to withholding progress payments for violations of public works law. Additionally, the bill requires a private labor compliance entity to disclose potential conflicts of interest and submit to the awarding body and DLSE a signed declaration under penalty of perjury verifying that it has no conflicts of interest.
STATUS:听搁e-referred to Com. on APPR.
POSITION:听听Support
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Employment Training Panel: employment training program: projects and proposals.
厂鲍惭惭础搁驰:听This bill applies additional goals and project requirements for the Employment Training Panel (ETP), including meeting Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS) criteria for high road job training programs. The bill would also prohibit a proposal from being considered or approved by ETP if, an applicant is ineligible to bid, be awarded, or subcontract on a public works project. Additionally, the bill would require ETP to provide notice of the intent to award proposals at least 30 days before a meeting to approve or reject a proposed award.
STATUS:听搁e-referred to Com. on APPR.
POSITION:听听Support
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:听顿iscrimination.
SUMMARY:听搁equires the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) to establish and maintain a comprehensive database to track all infrastructure contracting and procurement activities by state agencies. Requires a contractor or subcontractor under an infrastructure contract awarded by a state agency to report to the CRD specified demographic data, and requires the contractor or subcontractor to conduct a survey to collect this data and imposes civil penalties for a contractor鈥檚 or subcontractor鈥檚 failure to comply with these provisions. The bill also requires CRD to collaborate with relevant state agencies, local governments, and stakeholders to develop and implement strategies for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in public infrastructure contracting and procurement.
STATUS:听搁e-referred to Com. on APPR.
POSITION:听听Oppose
AUTHOR:听听听顿
TITLE:聽Contractors: licensing.
SUMMARY:聽This bill would continue in existence the Contractors State License Board until January 1, 2029.
STATUS:听搁e-referred to Com. on APPR.
POSITION:听听Support
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