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Title 20 — Education

Chapter 49 — Asbestos School Hazard Detection and Control

§ 3608. Employee protection

Statutory text

No State or local educational agency receiving assistance under this chapter may discharge any employee or otherwise discriminate against any employee with respect to the employee’s compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because the employee has brought to the attention of the public information concerning any asbestos problem in the school buildings within the jurisdiction of such agency.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Asbestos School Hazard Detection and Control Act of 1980

    Pub. L. 96–270 § 9 · 94 Stat. 487

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 3608

    (Pub. L. 96–270, § 9, June 14, 1980, 94 Stat. 496.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–270, § 9, June 14, 1980, 94 Stat. 496.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 9. employee protection No State or local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act may discharge any employee or otherwise discriminate against any employee with respect to the employee’s compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because the employee has brought to the attention of the public information concerning any asbestos problem in the school buildings within the jurisidiction of such agency.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–270, § 9, , 94 Stat. 496.)

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