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Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2023 - 2024 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: September 27, 2024 01:59 PM
From: Senator John I. Kane
To: All Senate members
Subject: Certified Payroll Public Database and Public Works Contractors Registration
 
Folks, today I am proposing a bill to protect workers, tax dollars, and transparency, who’s with me? The Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage law requires public agencies to keep certified payroll records when contractors and subcontractors perform public works projects. The public agencies include state, county, and municipal governments, as well as school districts. Certified payroll records allow governments and members of the public to ensure that contractors are paying proper wages and benefits to workers for public work pursuant to the prevailing wage law. The different public entities have a patchwork of ways they keep these records, and it is not consistent across the Commonwealth.
 
In order to bring uniformity and transparency to this process, my legislation would create a publicly available database of certified payrolls for public works projects. The database would be hosted on the PA Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) website. Public agencies would send the certified payroll data to DLI. Then the department would upload the data into the database. This publicly accessible database will increase transparency and help public agencies monitor and ensure that workers are being paid the proper wage and benefits during public works projects.
 
In order to fund the building and administration of the certified payroll database, the legislation will require any contractors or subcontractors that will bid on and perform public works to register and pay an annual $500 fee to the Department of Labor and Industry.
 
This legislation is similar to a certified payroll public database law that is operational in the state of New Jersey.
 
Please cosponsor this legislation to bring much-needed transparency and improvements to the certified payroll record keeping and transparency process.
 
 



Memo Updated: September 27, 2024 02:02 PM