To amend title 23, United States Code, to permit voluntary compliance with provisions relating to the rate of wage paid to laborers and mechanics employed on Federal-aid highway projects.
Latest action · Jul 28, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJul 9, 2003
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Terminates a provision that requires the Secretary of Transportation to ensure that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on the construction work performed on Federal-aid highway projects are paid prevailing rate wages. Permits a State to enact a law to provide for continued enforcement of the requirements of such provision in that State.
Cosponsors 61
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 9, 2003 to Jun 14, 2004, with 59 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-WY | Barbara Cubin | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| R-NC | Cass Ballenger | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| D-TX | Charles W. Stenholm | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| R-CA | Christopher Cox | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| R-FL | Cliff Stearns | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| R-IN | Dan Burton | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| R-CA | Dana Rohrabacher | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| R-MI | Dave Camp | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| R-FL | Dave Weldon | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| R-LA | David Vitter | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| R-NC | Howard Coble | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| R-AZ | J. D. Hayworth | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| R-SC | J. Gresham Barrett | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| R-TX | Jeb Hensarling | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
| R-AZ | Jeff Flake | Original | Jul 9, 2003 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 28, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
- Jul 10, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
- Jul 9, 2003Introduced in House
- Jul 9, 2003Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
- Commerce
- Construction industries
- Construction workers
- Economics and Public Finance
- Federal aid to transportation
- Government contractors
- Government Operations and Politics
- Highway finance
- Infrastructure
- Labor and Employment
- Minimum wages
- Road construction
- Subcontractors
- Transportation and Public Works
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