MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                        161

CHAPTER 21
(House Bill 354)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 4 of
Article 95A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement
Volume and 1968 Supplement), title "Unemployment Insurance
Law," subtitle "Benefits," providing that wages earned by a full-
time day student under certain conditions, shall not be considered
base-period wages.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 4 of Article 95A of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
(1964 Replacement Volume and 1968 Supplement), title "Unemploy-
ment Insurance Law," subtitle "Benefits," be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as follows:

4.

Any unemployed individual shall be eligible to receive benefits
with respect to any week only if the Executive Director finds that—

(a)    He has registered for work at and thereafter continued to
report at an employment office in accordance with such regulations
as the Executive Director may prescribe, except that the Executive
Director may, by regulation waive or alter either or both of the
requirements of this subsection as to individuals attached to regular
jobs and as to such types of cases or situations with respect to which
it finds that compliance with such requirements would be oppressive,
or would be inconsistent with the purposes of this article; provided
that no such regulation shall conflict with Section 3 (a) of this
article.

(b)    He has made a claim for benefits with respect to such week
in accordance with such regulations as the Executive Director may
prescribe.

(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 an 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. 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 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, 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 exceed-
ing three weeks in any benefit year, the Executive Director is au-
thorized to exempt the employees who thereby become unemployed
from producing evidence required under this section of the law, if

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