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Title 20 — Education

Chapter 52 — Education for Economic Security

§ 4018. Employee protection

Statutory text

No State or local educational agency receiving assistance under this subchapter 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 Abatement Act of 1984

    Pub. L. 98–377 title V § 509 · 98 Stat. 1267

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 4018

    Pub. L. 98–377, title V, § 509, Aug. 11, 1984, 98 Stat. 1294

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 98–377, title V, § 509, Aug. 11, 1984, 98 Stat. 1294

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 509. No State or local educational agency receiving assistance under this title 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.

  2. Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Reauthorization Act of 1990

    Pub. L. 101–637 § 14(a)(9) · 104 Stat. 4589

    Inserted · 20 U.S.C. § 4018

    Pub. L. 101–637 inserted section catchline

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 101–637 inserted section catchline.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (9) Section 509 is amended by striking out “Sec. 509.” and inserting the following section heading: “SEC. 509. EMPLOYEE PROTECTION.”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1990—Pub. L. 101–637 inserted section catchline.

Credits

1984–1990 · 2 acts
  1. 1984Pub. L. 98–377, title V, § 509, , 98 Stat. 1294
  2. 1990Pub. L. 101–637, § 14(a)(9), , 104 Stat. 4594.
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(Pub. L. 98–377, title V, § 509, , 98 Stat. 1294; Pub. L. 101–637, § 14(a)(9), , 104 Stat. 4594.)

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