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tive date, modification and termination of the agreement,
administration, and other appropriate provisions as the
State Agency and Federal Security Administrator shall
agree upon, but, except as may be otherwise required by
or under the Social Security Act as to the services to be
covered, such agreement shall provide in effect that

(1) Benefits will be provided for employees whose serv-
ices are covered by the agreement (and their dependents
and survivors) on the same basis as though such services
constituted employment within the meaning of Title II of
the Social Security Act;

(2) The State will pay to the Secretary of the Treasury,
at such time or times as may be prescribed under the Social
Security Act, contributions with respect to wages (as de-
fined in Section 32 of this Article), equal to the sum of the
taxes which would be imposed by Sections 1400 and 1410
of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act if the services
covered by the agreement constituted employment within
the meaning of that Act;

(3) Such agreement shall be effective with respect to
services in employment covered by the agreement per-
formed after a date specified therein, but in no event may
it be effective with respect to any services performed prior
to the first day of the calendar year in which such agree-
ment is entered into or in which the modification of the
agreement making it applicable to such services, is entered
into.

(4) All services which (a) constitute employment as
defined in Section 32, (b) are performed in the employ of
the State of Maryland and a political sub-division of the
State and (c) are covered by a plan which is in conformity
with the terms of the agreement and has been approved
by the State agency under Section 34, shall be covered
by the agreement.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1954.

Approved April 2, 1954.