Under current law, laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed
on the site of certain state or local projects of public works (generally single-trade
projects whose estimated cost of completion is $48,000 or more and multiple-trade
projects whose estimated cost of completion is $100,000 or more): 1) must be paid at
the rate paid for a majority of the hours worked in the person's trade or occupation
in the county in which the project is located, as determined by the Department of
Workforce Development; and 2) may not be required or permitted to work a greater
number of hours per day and per week than the prevailing hours of labor, that is, no
more than 10 hours per day and 40 hours per week, unless they are paid 1.5 times
their basic rate of pay (commonly referred to as "overtime pay") for all hours worked
in excess of the prevailing hours of labor (prevailing wage law).

This substitute amendment exempts from the prevailing wage law a project of
public works for which the estimated cost of project completion is less than

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$5,000,000, in which not less than 85 percent of that cost is privately funded, in which
the completed facility is dedicated to the state or a local governmental unit without
compensation for ownership by the state or local governmental unit, and in which
the completed facility is used for conservation, recreational, or educational purposes.
For purposes of this exemption, moneys derived from program revenue supported
borrowing or from segregated fund supported borrowing are considered to be public
funds.