Authorizing the commissioner of administration to debar or suspend vendors from contract work as a prime contractors, subcontractors, agents or material suppliers on state funded contracts; clarifying commissioner of labor and industry responsibility for highway contracts and hours of labor prevailing wages oversight, authorizing commissioner records examination and compliance orders issuance, authorizing employee civil actions and district court jurisdiction, requiring employer payment to employee for court costs and attorney fees; defining serious contract violation, governmental entity, laborer or mechanic, contracting authority, contractor and contract under department of labor and industry prevailing wage provisions; modifying prevailing wage rate, hours of labor and contract requirements, modifying commissioner of labor and industry prevailing wage rates determination, penalty, department investigation and prevailing wage rate violations reporting, notice and attorney general action; providing fringe benefit programs recovery by contractors, subcontractors and agents as approved by the commissioner, requiring records and permitting fines for violations; applying prevailing wage law to transportation contracts under delegated department of transportation (DOT) oversight, requiring the department of labor and industry to develop, maintain and publish classification definitions for use on DOT contracts, specifying DOT responsibilities, authorizing DOT civil enforcement actions, requiring DOT commissioner debarring of contractors in violation, specifying DOT contracting authority requirements; providing for investigations and subpoenas and prescribing powers, duties and responsibilities to the commissioners of labor and industry and DOT; authorizing laborers and mechanics to bring civil actions to district court; specifying contractor liability, district court jurisdiction, persons who may sue, discovery allowed, attorney fees and costs and civil penalty; requiring municipal contracting law compliance with respect to debarred entities; requiring performance bond compliance and modifying limit of time to bring action provision with regard to contractors
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