Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2206%20intr.htm&yr=2015&sesstype=RS&i=2206
Timestamp: 2018-05-24 23:39:27
Document Index: 603627489

Matched Legal Cases: ['§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§5', '§7', '§7', '§11', '§18', '§25', '§31', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§5', '§7', '§7', '§11', '§18', '§25', '§31']

(By Delegate Overington, Householder, McCuskey, Cowles, Espinosa, Gearheart, Walters, Folk, Foster, Azinger and Blair)
[Introduced January 22, 2015; referred to the
A BILL to repeal §21-5A-1, §21-5A-2, §21-5A-3, §21-5A-4, §21-5A-5, §21-5A-6, §21-5A-7, §21-5A-8, §21-5A-9, §21-5A-10 and §21-5A-11 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend and reenact §5D-1-5 of said code; to amend and reenact §7-11B-14 of said code; to amend and reenact §7-20-22 of said code; to amend and reenact §11-13Q-9 of said code; to amend and reenact §18-5-9a of said code; to amend and reenact §25-7-4 of said code; and to amend and reenact §31-15A-15 of said code, all relating to repealing the requirement of paying prevailing hourly rate of wages for construction of public improvements.
That §21-5A-1, §21-5A-2, §21-5A-3, §21-5A-4, §21-5A-5, §21-5A-6, §21-5A-7, §21-5A-8, §21-5A-9, §21-5A-10 and §21-5A-11 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be repealed; that §5D-1-5 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §7-11B-14 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §7-20-22 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §11-13Q-9 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §18-5-9a of said code be amended and reenacted; that §25-7-4 of said code be amended and reenacted; and that §31-15A-15 of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
(12) In the event that the electric power project or natural gas transmission project is to be owned by a governmental agency, apply to the economic development authority for the issuance of bonds payable solely from revenues as provided in article fifteen, chapter thirty-one of this code: Provided, That the economic development authority shall not issue any such bonds except by an act of general law. Provided, however, That the authority shall require that in the construction of any such project, prevailing wages shall be paid as part of a project specific agreement which also takes into account terms and conditions contained in the West Virginia - Ohio valley market retention and recovery agreement or a comparable agreement.
(a) Any project acquired, constructed, or financed, in whole or in part, by a county commission or municipality under this article shall be considered to be a "public improvement" within the meaning of the provisions of articles one-c and five-a, chapter twenty-one of this code.
(b) The county commission or municipality shall, except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, solicit or require solicitation of competitive bids and require the payment of prevailing wage rates as provided in article five-a, chapter twenty-one of this code and compliance with article one-c of said chapter for every project or infrastructure project funded pursuant to this article exceeding $25,000 in total cost.
(f) The provisions of subsection (b) of this section apply to privately owned projects or infrastructure projects constructed on lands not owned by the county commission, a municipality or a government agency or instrumentality when the owner or the owner's agent or person financing the owner's project receives money from the tax increment financing fund for the owner's project.
(b) When a job is attributable. -– An employee’s position is directly attributable to the qualified investment if:
(d) Certification of new jobs. -- With the annual return for the applicable taxes filed for the taxable year in which the qualified investment is first placed in service or use in this state, the taxpayer shall estimate and certify the number of new jobs reasonably projected to be created by it in this state within the period prescribed in subsection (f) of this section that are, or will be, directly attributable to the qualified investment of the taxpayer. For purposes of this section, “applicable taxes” means the taxes imposed by articles thirteen, twenty-one, twenty-three and twenty-four of this chapter against which this credit is applied.
(g) Additional new jobs percentage. -- When the qualified investment is $20 million or more and the new or expanded business facility is constructed using construction laborers and mechanics who are paid an average wage equal to or greater than the prevailing wage for their respective classes of work determined under chapter twenty-one of this code, then, if the number of full-time construction laborers and mechanics working at the job site of the new or expanded business facility is seventy-five or more, or if the number of hours of all construction laborers and mechanics working at the job site is equal to or greater than the number of hours seventy-five full-time construction laborers and mechanics would have worked at the job site during a twelve consecutive month period, a taxpayer that is allowed a new jobs percentage determined under subsection (a) of this section shall be allowed a new jobs percentage that is five percentage points higher than the new jobs percentage allowed under subsection (a) of this section. In no event may construction laborers and mechanics be used to attain or retain a subsection (a) new jobs percentage. The number of full-time construction laborers and mechanics working at the job site shall be determined by dividing the total number of hours worked by all construction laborers and mechanics on a new or expanded business facility during a twelve consecutive month period by two thousand eighty hours per year. A taxpayer may not claim the additional new jobs percentage allowed by this section unless the taxpayer includes with the certification filed under subsection (d) of this section a certification signed by the general contractor or the construction manager certifying that construction laborers employed at the job site during a consecutive twelve month period aggregated the equivalent of at least seventy-five full-time employees and the taxpayer has received from the general contractor or construction manager records substantiating the certification, which records shall be retained by the taxpayer for thirteen years after the day the expansion to an existing business facility, or the new business facility, is first placed in service or use by the taxpayer. For purposes of subsection (g) of this section:
(1) The term “construction laborers and mechanics” means those workers, utilized by a contractor or subcontractor at any tier, whose duties are manual or physical in nature, including those workers who use tools or are performing the work of a trade, as distinguished from mental or managerial and working foremen who devote more than twenty percent of their time during a workweek performing the duties of a laborer or mechanic; and
(2) The term “job site” is limited to the physical place or places where the construction called for in the contract will remain when the work on it is completed and nearby property, as described in subdivision (3) of this subsection, used by the contractor or subcontractor during construction that, because of proximity, can reasonably be included in the “site”.
(3) Except as provided in subdivision (4) of this subsection, fabrication plants, mobile factories, batch plants, borrow pits, job headquarters and tool yards are part of the “job site” provided they are dedicated exclusively, or nearly so, to performance of the contract or project and are located in proximity to the actual construction location so that it would be reasonable to include them.
(4) The term “job site” does not include permanent home offices, branch offices, branch plant establishments, fabrication yards or tool yards of a contractor or subcontractor whose locations and continuance in operation are determined without regard to the contract or subcontract for construction of a new or expanded business facility.
(1) “Energy-conservation measures” means goods or services, or both, to reduce energy consumption operating costs of school facilities. These include, but are not limited to, installation of two or more of the following:
(B) Storm windows or doors, caulking or weather stripping, multiglazed windows or doors, heat-absorbing or heat-reflective glazed and coated window or door systems or other window or door modifications that reduce energy consumption;
(G) Cogeneration systems that produce steam or another form of energy for use by the county board of education in a building or complex of buildings owned by the board of education; or
(H) Energy-conservation maintenance measures that provide long-term operating cost reductions of the building’s present cost of operation.
(2) “Energy-savings contract” means a contract for the evaluation and recommendation of energy operations conservation measures and for implementation of one or more such measures. The contract shall provide that payments, except obligations upon termination of the contract before its expiration, are to be made over time. A county board of education may supplement these payments with federal, state or local funds to reduce the annual cost or to lower the initial amount to be financed.
(3) “Qualified provider” means a person, firm or corporation experienced in the design, implementation and installation of energy-conservation measures.
(f) A board may enter into a “lease with an option to purchase” contract for the purchase and installation of energy-conservation measures if the term of the lease does not exceed fifteen years and the lease contract includes the provisions hereinafter contained in subsection (g) and meets federal tax requirements for tax-exempt municipal leasing or long-term financing.
(a) The commissioner may enter into contracts with private entities under which inmate or resident labor is provided through correctional industries for work involving the delivery of products or for service work. Service work means work which includes, but is not limited to, repairs, replacement of original manufactured items, packaging, sorting, recycling, labeling or similar work that is not original equipment manufacturing. The use of inmate or resident labor may not result in the displacement of civilian workers employed in the local region where the work is performed. The division may negotiate the wage for inmate or resident labor under correctional industries contracts. and, except as provided in sections thirteen, fourteen, fifteen and sixteen of this article, the wage may be less than the prevailing wage for work of a similar nature in the private sector.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to repeal requirements to pay prevailing wages for construction of public improvements.
Article 5A of Chapter 21 is repealed.