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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2015 - 2016
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | May 13, 2015 02:00 PM |
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| From: | Representative Mike Regan |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Raising the Threshold of Applicability under the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act |
| In the near future, I plan to introduce legislation that would increase the threshold under the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act from $25,000 to $500,000 and establish an annual inflationary adjustment to ensure the threshold remains current. In 1961, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania enacted the Prevailing Wage Act, requiring a prevailing minimum wage to be paid to workmen on publically-financed construction, reconstruction, repair, demolition, or alteration projects. Since the threshold was last increased in 1963, the cost of construction has increased nearly seven-fold. Projects of similar scope and size simply cannot be constructed for the same cost today as they were in 1963, thus warranting a long overdue adjustment. I believe raising the threshold to $500,000 is a reasonable adjustment that would greatly assist our municipalities and school districts by relieving the mandates set forth in the Act for work on small projects. I hope you will join me in sponsoring this legislation. |
Introduced as HB1453