SB1296sam001 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Toi W. Hutchinson

Filed: 3/10/2017

10000SB1296sam001 LRB100 08737 JLS 23388 a

AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1296

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1296 on page 2, by inserting immediately below line 25 the following:

""Construction industry" means any constructing, altering, reconstructing, repairing, rehabilitating, refinishing, refurbishing, remodeling, remediating, renovating, custom fabricating, maintenance, landscaping, improving, wrecking, painting, decorating, demolishing, or adding to or subtracting from any building, structure, highway, roadway, street, bridge, alley, sewer, ditch, sewage disposal plant, waterworks, parking facility, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development, real property, or improvement, or to do any part thereof, whether or not the performance of the work herein described involves the addition to or fabrication into, any structure, project, development, real property, or improvement herein described of any material or article of merchandise. "Construction industry" also includes moving construction related materials on the job site or to or from the job site, snow plowing, snow removal, and refuse collection."; and

on page 4, line 12, by replacing "maximum" with "minimum"; and

on page 6, line 4, by inserting after the period: "Paid sick days under this Act shall not be charged or otherwise credited to employee vacation or paid time off accounts."; and

on page 9, by replacing lines 16 through 20 with the following:

"(n) Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to interfere with, impede, or in any way diminish the right of employees to bargain collectively with their employers through representatives of their own choosing in order to establish wages or other conditions of work in excess of the applicable minimum standards of the provisions of this Act. Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to affect the validity or change the terms of bona fide collective bargaining agreements in force on the effective date of this Act. After the effective date of this Act, requirements of this Section may be waived in a bona fide collective bargaining agreement, but only if the waiver is set forth explicitly in such agreement in clear and unambiguous terms. In no event shall this Section apply to any employee working in the construction industry who is covered by a bona fide collective bargaining agreement.".