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Committee clears clarification to prevailing‑wage law for private solar projects
Summary
AB 1104 clarifies that private businesses and nonprofits installing solar are not treated as awarding bodies under public‑works prevailing‑wage rules; contractors remain responsible for prevailing wages and apprenticeship requirements. Committee passed the bill to the energy committee.
The Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement voted to advance AB 1104, a bill intended to clarify how prevailing‑wage requirements apply to private solar installations.
Assemblymember Pellerin, the bill's author, said AB 1104 responds to administrative confusion following enactment of AB 2143 (2022), which required prevailing wages for certain solar projects connected to the net billing tariff. Pellerin said private entities that simply purchase solar systems ' for example, a bakery or an animal shelter ' have been treated as "awarding bodies"…
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