1762                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 790

be deemed to be wages on the basis of which unemployment insurance
is payable under such law of another state or of the Federal govern-
ment. No such arrangement shall be entered into unless it contains
provision for reimbursement to the fund for such of the benefits paid
under this article on the basis of such wages and provision for reim-
bursement from the fund for such benefits paid under such other law
on the basis of wages for insured work, as the Executive Director
finds will be fair and reasonable to all affected interests; and]

[(4)] (3) Contributions due under this article with respect to
wages for insured work shall for the purposes of Section 15 of this
article be deemed to have been paid to the fund as of the date payment
was made as contributions therefor under another state of OR Federal
unemployment insurance law, but no such arrangement shall be
entered into unless it contains provisions for the [such] reimburse-
ment to the fund of [such] those contributions and the actual earn-
ings thereon as the Executive Director finds will be fair and reason-
able as to all affected interests.

(b)    Reimbursements.—Reimbursements paid from the fund pur-
suant to paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of this section shall be
deemed to be benefits for the purpose of all sections of this article.
The Executive Director is authorized to make to other state of OR
federal agencies and to receive from [such] those other state or
federal agencies[,] reimbursements from or to the fund, in accord-
ance with arrangements entered into pursuant to subsection (a) of
this section.

(c)    Cooperation between agencies.—The administration of this
article and of other state and Federal unemployment insurance and
public employment service laws will be promoted by cooperation
between this State and [such] the other states and the appropriate
federal agencies in exchanging services, and making available facil-
ities and information. The Executive Director is therefore authorized
to make [such] whatever investigations, secure and transmit [such]
whatever information, make available [such] those services and
facilities and exercise [such of the] whatever other powers provided
herein with respect to the administration of this article as he deems
necessary or appropriate to facilitate the administration of any
[such] unemployment insurance or public employment service law,
and in like manner[,] to accept and utilize information, services
and facilities made available to this State by the agency charged
with the administration of any [such] other unemployment insur-
ance or public employment service law.

(d)    Foreign governments.—To the extent permissible under the
laws and Constitution of the United States, the Executive Director
is authorized to enter into or cooperate in arrangements whereby
facilities and services provided under this article and facilities and
services provided under the unemployment insurance law of any
foreign government [,] may be utilized for the taking of claims and
the payment of benefits under the Unemployment Insurance Law of
this State or under a similar law of [such] that government.

(e)    Combining wage credits.—The Executive Director shall par-
ticipate in any arrangements for the payment of compensation on
the basis of combining an individual's wages and employment covered
under this Act with his wages and employment covered under the
unemployment compensation laws of other states which are approved
by the United States Secretary of Labor in consultation with the