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made as a direct or indirect result of the employer's failure to pro-
vide information to the Executive Director as required by this article
or the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.

Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take eifect
June 1, 1958.

Approved April 4, 1958.

CHAPTER 58
(Senate Bill 101)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 3(b) (1)
of Article 95A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Unemployment Insurance Law", sub-title "Benefits", relat-
ing to the computation of the "weekly benefit amount" for the
purposes of the unemployment compensation laws.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 3 (b) (1) of Article 95A of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1957 Edition), title "Unemployment Insurance Law", sub-title
"Benefits", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

3.

(b) (1) Weekly Benefit Amount and Allowance for Dependents—
An individual's "weekly benefit amount" and "allowance for de-
pendents" 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 the "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, and the amount of allowance for de-
pendents shall be the amount shown on the same line in column D, E,
F, or G, depending on the number of dependents for which allow-
ances are payable.

Provided, if a claimant had not earned qualifying wages, as re-
quired in Section 4(e) 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 [the next] a lower divi-
sion on said schedule, he is to be considered eligible for benefits as
shown in said [next] lower division. Provided further, that in no
event shall any claimant be permitted to drop down more than three
divisions as shown on the said schedule of benefits.

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.