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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 874

and has not received and is not seeking unemployment
benefits under the unemployment compensation law of the
Virgin Islands or of Canada; but if he is seeking those
benefits and the appropriate agency finally determines that
he is not entitled to benefits under the law he is
considered an exhautee IF OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS
DEFINITION ARE MET, EXCEPT THAT, IN THIS SUBPARAGRAPH, THE
REFERENCE TO THE VIRGIN ISLANDS IS NOT APPLICABLE ON AND
AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF LABOR
APPROVES THE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW OF THE VIRGIN
ISLANDS UNDER § 3304(A) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 29, 1978.

CHAPTER 875

(House Bill 393)

AN ACT concerning

Medical Assistance for Skilled Nursing Home
Care — Minors

FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene to pay for skilled nursing home care for
certain individuals under a certain age.

BY adding to

Article 43 - Health

Section 42J

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 43 - Health

42J.

THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE SHALL
REIMBURSE THE SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES FOR SERVICES
RENDERED TO INDIGENT OR MEDICALLY INDIGENT PATIENTS UNDER 21
YEARS OF AGE.