HIGHER ED-ASBESTOS TESTING

Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that a public or private educational entity that offers credit-bearing vocational, career, or technical education and coursework to high school students through a learning program approved by the school district wherein the location of the course instruction takes place in a building or structure that is located on the campus of an institution of higher education or in a building or structure that is located on a site that is under the jurisdiction or control of the institution may not be required by the Department of Public Health to obtain asbestos testing or to implement an asbestos remediation or abatement plan for that building or structure if (i) the public or private educational entity is not associated or affiliated with the institution of higher education other than in the use of the building or structure for course instruction and (ii) the institution of higher education is in compliance with all State and federal asbestos testing, abatement, and remediation requirements for buildings or structures located on its campus or that are otherwise under the jurisdiction or control of the institution. Effective immediately.