Law360, New York (April 16, 2014, 4:10 PM EDT) -- California is one of 32 states with a prevailing wage law. California's PWL may not be the oldest in the country — that honor goes to Kansas, which enacted the first "public wage law" in 1891, but the state's may be the most complex, evolving and litigated PWL in the country. For example, after the Vista, Calif., obtained a 2012 California Supreme Court ruling that the state's PWL did not apply to charter cities; the California Legislature responded in its 2013 session by amending the PWL to deny state funding to public works projects in charter cities which refuse to comply with the state's PWL. On Feb. 20, 2014, six charter cities, including Vista, Calif., filed suit challenging the constitutionality of the legislature's attempt to pull them back within the scope of the PWL....