PRINTER'S NO. 987
No. 905 Session of 1987
INTRODUCED BY SCHEETZ, STABACK, JACKSON, HERSHEY, FARGO, TRELLO,
BOWSER, NAHILL, SAURMAN, GEIST, MOEHLMANN, FOSTER, SEMMEL,
FOX, E. Z. TAYLOR, GLADECK, FLICK AND HECKLER, MARCH 18, 1987
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, MARCH 18, 1987
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," limiting the requirement of paying
6 prevailing wages under contracts entered into by school
7 districts.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. Section 752 of the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30,
11 No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, is amended to
12 read:
13 Section 752. Contracts to Require Competent Workmen.--All
14 contracts, hereafter awarded and entered into by any school
15 district, shall contain a clause or stipulation requiring that
16 no person shall be employed to do work under such contract
17 except competent and first-class workmen and mechanics. No
18 workmen shall be regarded as competent and first-class, within
19 the meaning of this act, except those who are duly skilled in
20 their respective branches of labor, and who shall, when the
1 contract is in excess of the monetary limit set forth in the
2 definition of "public work" in the act of August 15, 1961
3 (P.L.987, No.442), known as the "Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage
4 Act," be paid not less than such rates of wages and for such
5 hours' work as shall be the established and current rates of
6 wages paid for such hours by employers of organized labor in
7 doing of similar work in the district where work is being done.
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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