0001|                            HOUSE BILL 376
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           ANNA MARIE CROOK
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS; AMENDING SECTION 13-4-11 NMSA 1978
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0012|     (BEING LAWS 1965, CHAPTER 35, SECTION 1, AS AMENDED) TO LIMIT
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0013|     THE PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTS OR PROJECTS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN WAGE
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0014|     REQUIREMENTS.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  Section 13-4-11 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1965,
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0018|     Chapter 35, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:
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0019|          "13-4-11.  MINIMUM WAGES ON PUBLIC WORKS--WEEKLY
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0020|     PAYMENT--POSTING WAGE SCALE--WITHHOLDING FUNDS.--Every
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0021|     contract or project in excess of <s>[twenty thousand dollars
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<s></s>0022| <s>    ($20,000)]</s> <u>two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000)</u> to which
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0023|     the state or any political subdivision thereof is a party for
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0024|     construction, alteration, demolition or repair or any
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0025|     combination of these, including painting and decorating, of
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0001|     public buildings, public works or public roads of the state
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0002|     and which requires or involves the employment of mechanics,
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0003|     laborers or both shall contain a provision stating the minimum
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0004|     wages to be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics,
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0005|     which shall be based upon the wages that will be determined by
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0006|     the director of the labor and industrial division of the labor
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0007|     department to be prevailing for the corresponding classes of
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0008|     laborers and mechanics employed on contract work of a similar
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0009|     nature in the state or locality, and every contract or project
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0010|     shall contain a stipulation that the contractor,
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0011|     subcontractor, employer or any person acting as a contractor
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0012|     shall pay all mechanics and laborers employed on the site of
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0013|     the project, unconditionally and not less often than once a
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0014|     week and without subsequent unlawful deduction or rebate on
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0015|     any account, the full amounts accrued at time of payment
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0016|     computed at wage rates not less than those stated in the
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0017|     minimum wage rates issued for the project.
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0018|               A.  For the purposes of making wage determinations,
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0019|     the director of the labor and industrial division of the labor
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0020|     department shall conduct a continuing program for the
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0021|     obtaining and compiling of wage-rate information and shall
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0022|     encourage the voluntary submission of wage-rate data by
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0023|     contractors, contractors' associations, labor organizations,
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0024|     interested persons and public officers. Before making a
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0025|     determination of wage rates for any project, <s>[he]</s> <u>the
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<u></u>0001| <u>    director</u> shall give due regard to the information thus
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0002|     obtained.  Whenever the director deems that the data at hand
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0003|     are insufficient to make a wage determination, he may have a
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0004|     field survey conducted for the purpose of obtaining sufficient
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0005|     information upon which to make determination of wage rates. 
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0006|     Any interested person shall have the right to submit to the
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0007|     director written data, views and arguments why the wage
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0008|     determination should be changed.
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0009|               B.  The scale of wages to be paid shall be posted
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0010|     by the contractor or person acting as a contractor in a
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0011|     prominent and easily accessible place at the site of the work.
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0012|     <s>[and it is further provided that]</s> There may be withheld from
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0013|     the contractor, subcontractor, employer or any person acting
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0014|     as a contractor so much of accrued payments as may be
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0015|     considered necessary by the contracting officer to pay to
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0016|     laborers and mechanics employed on the project the difference
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0017|     between the rates of wages required by the director of the
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0018|     labor and industrial division of the labor department to be
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0019|     paid to laborers and mechanics on the work and the rates of
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0020|     wages received by such laborers and mechanics and not refunded
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0021|     to the contractor, subcontractor, employer or any person
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0022|     acting as a contractor or their agents.
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0023|               C.  The director of the labor and industrial
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0024|     division of the labor department <s>[shall have authority to]</s>
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0025|     <u>may</u> issue rules and regulations necessary to administer and
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0001|     accomplish the purposes of the Public Works Minimum Wage Act."
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