By Bailey H.B. No. 1527
77R6061 MXM-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to allowing public bodies the authority to require wages
1-3 higher than the prevailing wage rates for public works.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2258.022(c), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (c) A public body shall specify in the call for bids for the
1-8 contract and in the contract itself [the] wage rates equal to or
1-9 greater than the rates determined under this section.
1-10 SECTION 2. Sections 2258.023(a) and (c), Government Code, are
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (a) The contractor who is awarded a contract by a public
1-13 body or a subcontractor of the contractor shall pay not less than
1-14 the rates specified in the bid and in the contract, as provided
1-15 [determined] under Section 2258.022, to a worker employed by it in
1-16 the execution of the contract.
1-17 (c) A contractor or subcontractor does not violate this
1-18 section if a public body awarding a contract does not [determine
1-19 the prevailing wage rates and] specify the rates in the contract as
1-20 provided by Section 2258.022.
1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
1-22 applies only to a bid or contract that is made or entered into on
1-23 or after that date. A bid or contract that is made or entered into
1-24 before September 1, 2001, is governed by the law as it existed
2-1 immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
2-2 continued in effect for that purpose.