MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                      1677

CHAPTER 777
(House Bill 1445)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 19(a),

(2)  and (3) and Section 19 (b) of Article 95A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume), title "Unemploy-
ment Insurance Law," subtitle "Reciprocal Arrangements," to pro-
vide that the Executive Director may enter into interstate benefit
agreements and agreements for combining wages for purposes of
paying interstate claims for unemployment insurance.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 19(a) (2) and (3) and Section 19(b) of Article 95A of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume), title
"Unemployment Insurance Law," subtitle "Reciprocal Arrange-
ments," be and they are hereby repealed, and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

19.

(a)(2) [Potential rights to benefits accumulated under the
unemployment insurance laws of one or more states or under one or
more such laws of the federal government, or both, may constitute
the basis for the payment of benefits through a single appropriate
agency under terms which the Executive Director finds will be fair
and reasonable as to all affected interests and will not result in any
substantial loss to the fund;] Potential rights to benefits under this
article may constitute the basis for payment of benefits by another
state or by the federal government and potential rights to benefits
accumulated under the law of another state or of the federal govern-
ment may constitute the basis for the payment of benefits by this
state. Such benefits shall be paid under such provisions of this
article or under the provisions of the law of such state or of the
federal government or under such combination of the provisions of
both laws as may be agreed upon as being fair and reasonable to all
affected interests. No such arrangement shall be entered into unless
it contains provision for reimbursement to the fund for such benefits
as are paid on the basis of wages and service subject to the law
of another state or of the federal government, and provision for
reimbursement from the fund for such benefits as are paid by
another state or by the federal government on the basis of wages
and service subject to this article;

(3)    [Wages or services, upon the basis of which an individual
may become entitled to benefits under an unemployment insurance
law of another state or of the federal government, shall be deemed
to be wages for insured work for the purpose of determining his
rights to benefits under this article, and wages for insured work, on
the basis of which an individual may become entitled to benefits under
this article shall be deemed to be wages or services on the basis of
which unemployment insurance under such law of another state or
of the federal government is payable, but no such arrangement shall
be entered into unless it contains provisions for reimbursements
to the fund for such of the benefits paid under this