CaliforniaPublic works: prevailing wages: access to records.
What it does
Existing law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages be paid to workers employed on public works and imposes misdemeanor penalties for a willful violation of this requirement. Existing law defines "public works," for the purposes of regulating public works contracts, as, among other things, construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for, in whole or in part, out of public funds.
More detail
Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to investigate allegations that a contractor or subcontractor violated the law regulating public works projects, including the payment of prevailing wages. Existing law requires each contractor and subcontractor on a public works project to keep accurate payroll records, showing the name, address, social security number, work classification, straight time and overtime hours worked each day and week, and the actual per diem wages paid to each journeyman, apprentice, worker, or other employee employed by the contractor or subcontractor in connection with the public work. Existing law requires any copy of records made available for inspection as copies and furnished upon request to the public or any public agency to be marked or obliterated to prevent disclosure of an individual's name, address, and social security number but specifies that any copy of records made available to a Taft-Hartley trust fund for the purposes of allocating contributions to participants be marked or obliterated only to prevent disclosure of an individual's full social security number, as specified.
This bill would require an owner or developer, as defined, undertaking any work, subject to the prevailing wage requirements, to make specified records available upon request to the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, to multiemployer Taft-Hartley trust funds, and to joint labor-management committees, as specified. The bill would set forth timelines for the owner or developer to comply with a request for records and for a fund or committee to submit a complaint to the division in case of an owner's or developer's failure to comply. Under the latter circumstance, the bill would require the division to submit to the owner or developer a new written request for records, as specified.
Under the bill, if the owner or developer fails to comply with the request from the division, they would be subject to penalties, to be deposited into the State Public Works Enforcement Fund, as specified.
If a request for records is made, the bill would require that the request be made within 3 years of the completion of the work.
The bill would require the Director of Industrial Relations to adopt rules governing the release of these records, as specified.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Jan 22Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.Latest
- 2025
- Oct 13Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
- Oct 13Vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom.Major
- Sep 24Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.To Governor
- Sep 13Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 6. Page 3473.).Major
- Vote recorded AB 963 Petrie-Norris Concurrence in Senate Amendments. Result: pass.Lower
- Sep 13Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
- Sep 12In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB963 Petrie-Norris By Durazo. Result: pass.Upper
- Sep 12Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2991.).Passed Senate
- Sep 10Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Sep 9Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.Major
- Sep 9Joint Rule 61(a)(13) suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2568.)
- Aug 29Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 29From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 29).Minor
- Aug 18In committee: Referred to suspense file.Minor
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- Jul 17Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Major
- Jul 16From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (July 15).Major
- Jul 15
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jul 9From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 19In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- Jun 16In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Jun 11Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.Minor
- Jun 3In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Jun 2Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 4. Page 1869.)Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded AB 963 Petrie-Norris Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- May 27Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 23From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (May 23).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- May 7In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Apr 24From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 23
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 2In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Mar 10Referred to Com. on L. & E.Minor
- Feb 21From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- Feb 20Read first time. To print.Introduced