Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, expresses the public policy that the prevailing wage rate be paid to workers on non-state contracts for construction projects on public highways; makes other revisions to the Prevailing Wage Act for State Highway Construction Projects. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4.

Summary

The bill mandates that workers on both state‑directed and non‑state contracts for highway projects funded by federal or state money receive the prevailing wage. It updates the definition of a “state contract” and adds the commissioner’s designee to the wage‑rate development process. The changes apply to any contract entered into after the law takes effect.

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