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to certain between term denial provisions applicable to
individuals who perform services for or on behalf of
educational institutions; and making certain technical
corrections.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law
Section 4(c) and (f)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1985 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

4.

(c) He is able to work, and is available for work; provided
no claimant shall be considered ineligible in any week of
unemployment for failure to comply with provisions of this
subsection if such failure is due to illness or disability which
occurs after he has registered for work and no work which would
have been considered suitable at the time of his initial
registration has been offered after the beginning of such illness
or disability. The [Executive Director] SECRETARY shall not use
the blindness of an unsighted or other severely handicapped
person as a factor making such a person ineligible under the
"able to work" requirement of this subsection if the person was
an employee of the [Maryland Workshop for the Blind] BLIND
INDUSTRIES AND SERVICES OF MARYLAND, immediately prior to being
unemployed. As used in this subsection, the term "available for
work" shall mean, among other things, that a claimant is actively
seeking work. In determining whether or not the claimant has
actively sought work, the [Executive Director] SECRETARY shall
consider whether the efforts he has made to obtain work have been
reasonable and are such efforts as an unemployed individual is
expected to make if he is honestly looking for work. The extent
of the effort required shall depend upon labor market conditions
in the claimant's area.

Provided[,] FURTHER that when an employer closes its entire
plant or any portion of the plant for a vacation or inventory or
other purpose causing unemployment for a certain and definable
period not exceeding 10 weeks [in any benefit year] DURING EACH
PERIOD OF UNEMPLOYMENT, the [Executive Director] SECRETARY is
authorized to exempt the employees who thereby become unemployed
from [producing evidence] ACTIVELY SEEKING WORK AS required under
this section of the law, if it is found by the [Executive
Director] SECRETARY that the circumstances and labor market
conditions justify such exemptions; however, such employees must
comply with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section and
must be able to work and otherwise available for work. Exemption