H-1231

   Amend Senate File 438, as passed by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  70A.41  State construction projects —— project labor agreements prohibited.
   1.  For the purposes of this section:
   a.  “Construction project” means the construction, rehabilitation, alteration, conversion, extension, repair or improvement of a vertical public works project, including a building and other real property-related project.
   b.  “Labor organization” means an area or state building and construction trades or crafts council, organization, or association or a comparable body.
   c.  “Project labor agreement” means a comprehensive pre-hire collective bargaining agreement that is negotiated between a project’s owner and an appropriate labor organization and sets out the basic terms and working conditions for that particular project.
   2.  The state or any state department or agency shall not enter into or utilize a project labor agreement for any construction project.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 through 3 and inserting <An Act prohibiting the use of project labor agreements for state construction projects.>

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RUNNING-MARQUARDT of Linn