872                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 415

CHAPTER 415

(Senate Bill 588)

AN ACT to add new Section [[11(16)(A)]] 11(16A) to Article 73B of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Replacement Volume), title "Pensions,"
subtitle "In General," to follow immediately after Section 11(16) thereof, [(and
to be under the new subtitle "Pensions and Withholding Therefrom," to provide
for an optional deduction from a retirement annuity administered by the
Employees' Retirement System of the State of Maryland for the payment of
medical insurance premiums or any part thereof.]] to authorize the State
Employees' Retirement System to pay medical insurance premiums for retired
local government employees, and to provide for the sources and manner of this
payment.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section [[11(16)(A)]] 11(16A) be and it is hereby added
to Article 73B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Replacement Volume),
title "Pensions," subtitle "In General," to follow immediately after Section 11(16)
thereof, [[and to be under the new subtitle "Pensions and Withholding
Therefrom,"]] to read as follows:

[[PENSIONS AND WITHHOLDING THEREFROM]]

11.

[[(16)(A)]] (16A) NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE
CONTRARY IN THIS ARTICLE, ANY PERSON WHO RECEIVES HIS
RETIREMENT ANNUITY THROUGH THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT
SYSTEM OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND MAY ELECT TO HAVE THE
PREMIUM OR ANY PART THEREOF, FOR LOCALLY APPROVED
MEDICAL INSURANCE PARTICIPATED IN BY THE CITY OF
BALTIMORE OR ANY OF COUNTIES, DEDUCTED FROM HIS
ANNUITY BY THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF THE
STATE OF MARYLAND AND RETURNED TO THE APPROPRIATE
JURISDICTION FOR PAYMENT ON HIS BEHALF TO THE CARRIER SO
APPROVED. HOWEVER, NEITHER THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT
SYSTEM OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND OR INSTRUMENTALITY
SHALL BE OTHERWISE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY
PART OF THE PREMIUM FOR THE ABOVE-MENTIONED MEDICAL
INSURANCE APPROVED BY THE CITY OF BALTIMORE OR ANY OF
THE COUNTIES.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 21, 1973.