Senate Bill No. 170–Senators O’Connell,
Rhoads and McGinness

 

February 20, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Government Affairs

 

SUMMARY—Exempts contracts for public works for school facilities in certain counties from prevailing wage. (BDR 28‑61)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: No.

                           Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to public works; exempting contracts for public works for school facilities in certain counties from the requirements for the payment of the prevailing wage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1  Section 1. NRS 338.080 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2  338.080  None of the provisions of NRS 338.020 to 338.090,

1-3  inclusive, apply to:

1-4  1.  Any work, construction, alteration, repair or other

1-5  employment performed, undertaken or carried out, by or for any

1-6  railroad company or any person operating the same, whether such

1-7  work, construction, alteration or repair is incident to or in

1-8  conjunction with a contract to which this state or any of its political

1-9  subdivisions is a party, or otherwise.

1-10      2.  Apprentices recorded under the provisions of chapter 610 of

1-11  NRS.

1-12      3.  Any contract for a public work whose cost is less than

1-13  $100,000. A unit of the project must not be separated from the total

1-14  project, even if that unit is to be completed at a later time, in order to

1-15  lower the cost of the project below $100,000.

2-1  4.  Any contract for a public work for a school facility in a

2-2  county whose population is 50,000 or less.

2-3  Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2003.

 

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