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No legislative goal is ever accomplished alone. That is why Chicago Area LECET works independently and alongside all our industry allies to ensure a strong labor-management voice on key issues. We constantly track pending legislation and fight for laws that will advance and protect union contractors and the Laborer trade.
You can get information on all current and pending Illinois state bills, as well as legislators and state congressional districts by visiting the Illinois General Assembly website at www.ilga.gov. For federal legislation click here.
We encourage you to stay informed on legislation that affects union contractors and Laborers. As we at LECET continually try to affect change in the policy landscape in your favor, we will need your help in this effort by contacting your legislators and telling them to support pro-construction and pro-union bills - it truly does matter to them what you think. Visit this page often to find out which bills will benefit you and will need your support. Use the link at the top of this page to locate your legislators.
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LECET is continuously following certain legislation that is making its way through the Illinois General Assembly. Below are a list of currently active bills that for one reason or another, we've got our eyes on. Some we may support, some we may oppose, some we may be completely neutral on or just want to make people aware of. But we believe all can potentially affect the business climate for our contractors and Laborers, and it is our responsibility to help ensure that bills that we believe improve that business climate get passed, and those that deteriorate that business climate are either amended appropriately or never get passed.
If you have any questions about any of this legislation, or whether we support it or oppose it and why, please feel free to contact Mike Macellaio or Patrick Hosty via email or phone at 630-655-8935.
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Public Private Partnerships
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House Bill 1091 - Public Private Partnerships for Transportation
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House Bill 1966 - High Speed Rail Public Private Partnership
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Prevailing Wage
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House Bill 1041
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House Bill 3237 - Prevailing Wage-Enforcement & Penalties
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Senate Bill 1511
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Responsible Bidding
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Senate Bill 2172
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House Bill 1375
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Infrastructure
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House Bill 14 - ComEd Infrastructure
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House Bill 1606 - Brownfields Intermodal
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House Bill 1703 - Pipelines
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House Bill 3493 - Renewable Electricity
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Senate Bill 400 - Sale/Leaseback Arrangements
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Senate Bill 1258
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Capital Bill (legislation concerning Wirtz vs. Quinn, regarding the capital construction plan passed in 2009)
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Senate Bill 21
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Senate Bill 1322
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Senate Bill 1323
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Miscellaneous
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House Bill 1228 - Plumbing License
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House Bill 2927 - Emergency Employment Development Act
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House Bill 2987 - Project Labor Agreements
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House Bill 3107 - Gaming
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House Bill 3636 - Lien Rights
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HJRCA 5 - Pension Benefits
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HR 252 - Worker's Memorial Day
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Senate Bill 38 - Rainwater/Plumbing Code
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Senate Bill 83 - Water Systems
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Senate Bill 1352 - CDB Expansion
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Past Supported Legislation
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Employee Classification Act (Public Act 095-0026) (effective Jan. 1, 2008)
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TheEmployee Classification act is designed to make it harder for employers to illegally classify their employees as 1099 subcontractors when they actually meet the definition of employees and should be classified as such. Doing so allows them to avoid a host of employment costs and gives them an unfair advantage when bidding for work against companies that classify their employees properly.
LECET helped the effort to pass this law in a number of ways, including the partial funding of an important study conducted by the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The study is titled "The Economic Costs of Employee Misclassification in the State of Illinois", and examines just that - what is the affect to the economy of misclassification - how much unemployment insurance is being lost, how much income tax revenue is being lost, how much it raises workers compensation premiums, etc. Read the full study here:
The Economic Costs of Employee Misclassification
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Certified Payroll Requirements (Public Act 94-0515) (effective August 10, 2005)
Contractors and subcontractors on public works projects must submit certified payroll records on a monthly basis to the public body in charge of the construction project, along with a statement affirming that such records are true and accurate, that the wages paid to each worker are not less than the required prevailing rate and that the contractor is aware that filing records he or she knows to be false is a Class B misdemeanor.
 The certified payroll records must include for every worker employed on the public works project the name, address, telephone number, social security number, job classification, hourly wages paid in each pay period, number of hours worked each day, and starting and ending time of work each day. These certified payroll records are considered public records and public bodies must make these records available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act, with the exception of the employee's address, telephone number and social security number. Any contractor who fails to submit a certified payroll or knowingly files a false certified payroll is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
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Increased Penalties for Prevailing Wage Violations (Public Act 94-0488) (Effective January 1, 2006)
Penalties for violations of the Prevailing Wage Act will increase from 20% to 50% of the underpaid amounts for second or subsequent violations. An additional penalty of 5% of the underpayment penalty must be paid to workers for each month the wages remain unpaid (up from the current 2% penalty).
For violations that occur after January 1,2006, the debarment period --during which contractors are ineligible for public works contracts -increases from 2 years to 4 years if two notices of violation are issued/serious violations occur within a 5-year period. In addition, a new monetary penalty of $5,000 may be assessed against contractors who retaliate against employees who report violations or file complaints under the Prevailing Wage Act.
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