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2015 SESSION
HB 179 Asbestos, Lead, & Home Inspectors, Board for; examination, asbestos worker license applicants.
Introduced by: Peter F. Farrell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Virginia Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors; examination; initial asbestos worker license applicants. Requires employers to provide each licensed asbestos worker with a written notice containing the following information: (i) a statement that the worker has the right to work in a safe environment, (ii) a summary of basic safety rules for handling asbestos, and (iii) information on how to file a complaint with the Board for Asbestos, Lead, and Home Inspectors. In addition, the bill empowers the Board to summarily suspend the license of an asbestos contractor if the Board finds that the asbestos contractor's conduct poses a substantial danger to the public health or safety and authorizes the Board to suspend, revoke, or deny renewal of an existing license of any asbestos contractor who is shown to have a substantial identity of interest with an asbestos contractor whose license has been revoked.
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HISTORY
- 12/23/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14100904D
- 12/23/13 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/10/14 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
- 01/23/14 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2015 by voice vote
- 01/28/14 House: Continued to 2015 in General Laws by voice vote
- 12/04/14 House: Left in General Laws