Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, expresses the public policy that the prevailing wage rate be paid to workers on non-state contracts for construction projects on public highways; makes other revisions to the Prevailing Wage Act for State Highway Construction Projects. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4.

SB 2229 amends Tennessee's Prevailing Wage Act to require that workers on non-state construction contracts for public highway projects funded by federal or state highway funds receive the prevailing wage rate. This expands the existing requirement (which previously applied only to state contracts) to cover non-state contracts for projects on public highways using public funds. The bill also updates the process for determining prevailing wages by adding "the commissioner's designee" to the development procedure. These changes apply to contracts entered into, amended, or renewed on or after the effective date.