The Chamber testified early in session against Senate Bill 330 in the Senate Local Government Committee. Authored by Sen. Mike Bohaceck (R-Michiana Shores), this bill would have subjected contractors on public and tax-advantaged projects to additional reporting requirements, including completion of a weekly report of wages and hours of the contractor’s employees’ work on the project.
The contractors would then have to make these reports available to both the public entity contracting the project and/or offering tax incentives and the Indiana Department of Labor.
We opposed the bill as it was far too broad in scope and included any project that is an alteration, building, reconstruction, renovation, expansion, demolition, improvement, repair or maintenance of a structure. If a contractor is doing any of these activities – no matter how minor – on a tax-advantaged or public project, they would have been subjected to turning over their payroll records to a public entity, thus potentially making them public record.
Senate Bill 330 passed the Senate Local Government Committee but was not called down for second reading in the Senate, thus killing the measure. We appreciate the work of business-minded senators defeating this bill before it could move further through the process.
