HB339
Employee protections; wage and hour, health and safety, and mining safety provisions.
Status:
In Senate
Latest Action:
Feb. 11, 2026
House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB339)
Chief Patron:
Alfonso Lopez (D)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. Employee protections; prevailing wage, wage and hour, health and safety, and mining safety provisions.
Provides that for the requirement that prevailing wages be paid for work performed on public works, 'public works' includes all federal construction projects administered or controlled by a state agency or locality if the prevailing wage rate as determined by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry (the Commissioner) is equal ... (More) to or greater than the prevailing wage determination by the U.S. Secretary of Labor for the same locality for the same type of construction used to classify the federal construction project. The bill requires the Commissioner to determine the prevailing wage based on either (i) applicable prevailing wage rate determinations made by the U.S. Secretary of Labor under the provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act or (ii) the rate that prevails for work of a similar character on public works in the locality in which the work is performed under collective bargaining agreements or understandings between employers or employer associations and bona fide labor organizations relating to each craft or type of worker or mechanic needed to execute the contract or perform such work, and collective bargaining agreements or understandings successor thereto, provided that said employers or members of said employer associations employ at least 30 percent of the laborers, workers, or mechanics in the same trade or occupation in the locality where the work is being performed, whichever is greater. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/12/2026 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102185D
- 01/12/2026 - House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 01/19/2026 - House: Assigned HCL sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/21/2026 - House: Placed on Labor and Commerce Agenda
- 01/22/2026 - House: House subcommittee offered
- 01/22/2026 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 2-N)
- 01/23/2026 - House: Placed on Labor and Commerce Agenda
- 01/27/2026 - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce with substitute (15-Y 7-N)
- 01/27/2026 - House: Committee substitute printed 26105908D-H1
- 01/29/2026 - House: Read first time
- 01/30/2026 - House: Read second time
- 01/30/2026 - House: committee substitute agreed to
- 01/30/2026 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/02/2026 - House: Read third time and passed House (64-Y 35-N 0-A) Close Floor Vote
- 02/03/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/03/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/11/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB339)
