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 9  AN ACT concerning public works projects for state agencies; prescribing
10    payment of minimum wages for work thereon and preferences for
11    certain employees to work thereon.
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13  Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
14    Section 1.  (a) Each contract entered into by any state agency for any
15  nonfederal aid, public works project shall be based on bid or contract
16  specifications prescribing and requiring that employees of any contractor
17  or subcontractor shall be paid not less than the hourly wages, including
18  fringe benefits, paid to corresponding classes of laborers and mechanics
19  employed on similar projects in the county where the project is to be
20  performed. Such minimum wage shall be the wage paid to the majority
21  of the laborers or mechanics, unless the same wages are not paid to a
22  majority, in which case the minimum wage shall be the average wages
23  paid, weighted by the total employed in the classification. In the alter-
24  native, the minimum wage shall be that determined under federal law
25  which would be required to be paid on federally funded projects at the
26  location of the public works project.
27    (b)  Employees employed by contractors or subcontractors in the ex-
28  ecution of any nonfederal aid, public works project contract with any state
29  agency shall be paid not less than the wages as determined pursuant to
30  subsection (a).
31    (c)  All work done on public works projects owned by or built for any
32  state agency shall be done by Kansas resident employees whenever pos-
33  sible. No employees working on such public works projects who have
34  inalienable voting rights in the United States of America shall be displaced
35  from working on such public works projects by any employees who do
36  not have inalienable voting rights in the United States of America.
37    Sec. 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
38  publication in the statute book.