HB 2850 — power plants; contractors; workforce requirements.

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The bill establishes new workforce requirements for contractors working on power plants, mandating the use of a skilled and trained workforce and setting associated penalties for non-compliance.

• Title 23, chapter 2, Arizona Revised Statutes

  ARTICLE 4. POWER PLANT SAFETY

  Introduces a new article focusing on power plant safety and workforce requirements.

• 23-253

  Notwithstanding any other law, when contracting for the performance of construction, alteration, demolition, installation, repair or maintenance work on a power plant, an owner or operator shall require that its contractors and any subcontractors use a skilled and trained workforce to perform all on-site work within an apprenticeable occupation in the building and construction trades. All workers in the skilled and trained workforce must have completed within the past three calendar years at least twenty hours of approved advanced safety training for workers at power plants. The requirements prescribed in this subsection apply to each individual contractor's and subcontractor's on-site workforce. → Notwithstanding any other law, when contracting for the performance of construction, alteration, demolition, installation, repair or maintenance work on a power plant, an owner or operator shall require that its contractors and any subcontractors use a skilled and trained workforce to perform all on-site work within an apprenticeable occupation in the building and construction trades. All workers in the skilled and trained workforce must have completed within the past three calendar years at least twenty hours of approved advanced safety training for workers at power plants. The requirements prescribed in this subsection apply to each individual contractor's and subcontractor's on-site workforce.

  Mandates the use of a skilled and trained workforce for power plant projects.

• 23-254

  A contractor or subcontractor that is subject to this article shall ensure that the contractor's or subcontractor's skilled journeypersons are being paid at least a rate commensurate with the wages typically paid for the occupation in the applicable geographic area, subject to the following provisions: 1. The prevailing hourly wage rate paid for a worker in the applicable occupation and geographic area on public works projects may be used to determine the appropriate rate of pay, except that this paragraph does not require a contractor to pay prevailing hourly wage rates. 2. The worker may not be paid at a rate less than an hourly rate consistent with the seventy-fifth percentile in the applicable occupation and geographic area in the most recent occupational employment statistics published by the office of economic opportunity. → A contractor or subcontractor that is subject to this article shall ensure that the contractor's or subcontractor's skilled journeypersons are being paid at least a rate commensurate with the wages typically paid for the occupation in the applicable geographic area, subject to the following provisions: 1. The prevailing hourly wage rate paid for a worker in the applicable occupation and geographic area on public works projects may be used to determine the appropriate rate of pay, except that this paragraph does not require a contractor to pay prevailing hourly wage rates. 2. The worker may not be paid at a rate less than an hourly rate consistent with the seventy-fifth percentile in the applicable occupation and geographic area in the most recent occupational employment statistics published by the office of economic opportunity.

  Ensures payment of skilled journeypersons at rates consistent with local wage standards.

• 23-256

  The commission may adopt any rules necessary to implement this article.

  Gives the commission authority to adopt rules for implementing the new workforce requirements.

• 34-321

  Agencies and political subdivisions of this state, shall not by regulation, or ordinance or in any other manner, shall not require public works contracts to contain a provision requiring the wages paid by the contractor or any subcontractor to be not less than the prevailing rate of wages for work of a similar nature in the state or political subdivision where the project is located. → Agencies and political subdivisions of this state, shall not by regulation, or ordinance or in any other manner, shall not require public works contracts to contain a provision requiring the wages paid by the contractor or any subcontractor to be not less than the prevailing rate of wages for work of a similar nature in the state or political subdivision where the project is located.

  Prohibits municipalities from enforcing prevailing wage requirements in public works contracts.

Action History

1. February 11, 2021

   House Second Reading

2. February 10, 2021

   House First Reading.

Sponsors

• Alma Hernandez · Primary
• Raquel Terán · Cosponsor
• Lorenzo Sierra · Cosponsor
• Robert Meza · Cosponsor
• Jennifer Longdon · Cosponsor

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