2414                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [Ch. 707

CHAPTER 707
(House Bill 175)
AN ACT concerning

Unemployment Insurance Law — Benefits

FOR the purpose of increasing the maximum weekly
unemployment insurance benefits, adding new
categories to the benefit schedule, correcting
certain references, relating generally to
unemployment insurance benefits and correcting an
error therein.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 95A — Unemployment Insurance Law

Sections 3(b) and 3 (c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 3(b) and 3(c) of Article 95A -
Unemployment Insurance Law, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be
and it is hereby repealed and re—enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows;

Article 95A — Unemployment Insurance Law
3.

(b) (1) Weekly Benefit Amount. An individual's
"weekly benefit amount" shall be determined by applying
the total of wages paid him for insured work in that
calendar quarter of his base period in which such total
wages were highest to column (A) in "schedule of
benefits" set forth below. Upon determination as to the
division of said schedule for which such individual's
high quarter wages qualify, the weekly benefit amount
shall be the amount shown on the same line in column (B).

Provided, if a claimant had not earned qualifying
wages, as required in § [4(e)] 4(D) of this article, for
the weekly benefit amount shown in the schedule of
benefits on the basis of his earnings in the calendar
quarter of the base period in which his earnings were
highest, but did earn qualifying wages for a lower
division on said schedule, he is to be considered
eligible for benefits as shown in said lower division.
Provided further, that in no event shall any claimant be
permitted to drop down more than three divisions as shown