Budget Amendment ID: FY2020-S3-395-R1

Redraft GOV 395

Prevailing Wage Equality

Messrs. Feeney and Welch, Ms. Jehlen, Messrs. Crighton, Moore, Eldridge, Timilty, Boncore, Collins, Finegold, Keenan, O'Connor and Cyr moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after section 41 the following section:-

"SECTION 41A. The first paragraph of section 27H of chapter 149 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- No agreement or contract providing for the cleaning and maintenance of public buildings or space rented by any state executive, legislative or judicial department, office, commission, board, bureau, institution, regional or independent authority or any instrumentality thereof shall be entered into or given by any state executive, legislative or judicial department, office, commission, board, bureau, institution, regional or independent authority or any instrumentality thereof unless the contract or agreement contains a stipulation requiring prescribed rates of wages, as determined by the commissioners, to be paid to the employees of the maintenance or cleaning contractor."