SB2480 - Illinois Hazardous Materials Workforce Training Act

• Environmental Protection Agency must develop a curriculum for approved advanced safety training for workers at high hazard facilities and approve it by January 1, 2020.

• Owners and operators of stationary sources in hazardous materials industries (NAICS codes 324110 and 325110) must require contractors and subcontractors to use a skilled and trained workforce for all onsite construction work in apprenticeable occupations, effective for contracts awarded on or after January 1, 2019.

• "Skilled journeyperson" definition requires workers to have apprenticeship training or equivalent experience, be paid prevailing wage rates, and beginning January 1, 2022, complete at least 20 hours of approved advanced safety training within the prior 2 calendar years.

• Phased requirements mandate that beginning January 1, 2019, at least 30% of skilled journeypersons must be apprenticeship graduates, increasing to 45% by January 1, 2020, and 60% by January 1, 2021.

• Violations subject to civil penalties up to $10,000 per violation, with each day constituting a separate violation; all penalties deposited into the Illinois Hazardous Materials Workforce Training Fund.