HB 2226 — power plants; contractors; workforce requirements

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This bill establishes new workforce requirements for power plants in Arizona, including mandatory use of a skilled and trained workforce.

• Title 23, chapter 2, Arizona Revised Statutes

  ARTICLE 4. POWER PLANT SAFETY

  Introduces a new article focusing on safety for power plant operations.

• 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. → 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.

  Mandates the use of a skilled and trained workforce for all relevant work on power plants.

• 23-253

  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. → 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.

  Requires safety training for all skilled and trained workers in power plants.

• 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:

  Establishes wage rate requirements for skilled journeypersons working on power plants.

• 23-255

  After a hearing, the commission shall impose a civil penalty of at least $1,000 per day against a contractor or subcontractor that fails to comply with section 23‑253, subsection A.

  Imposes civil penalties for noncompliance with workforce requirements.

• 23-256

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

  Grants the commission rule-making authority to enforce the new article.

• 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, 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.

  Clarifies the prohibition on mandatory prevailing wage requirements in public works contracts.

Action History

1. January 21, 2021

   House Second Reading

2. January 20, 2021

   House First Reading.

Sponsors

• Myron Tsosie · Cosponsor
• Arlando Teller · Primary

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