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JOINT RESOLUTIONS

Paul S. Sarbanes, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C.
20510; Congressman Robert E. Bauman, Congressman Clarence D.
Long, Congress woman Barbara A. Mikulski, Congresswoman
Marjorie S. Holt, Congresswoman Gladys N. Spellman,
Congressman Goodloe E. Byron, Congressman Parren J.
Mitchell, Congressman Newton I. Steers, House of
Representatives, House Office Building, Washington, D. C.
20515.

Approved May 2, 1978.

No. 5

(Senate Joint Resolution 32)

A Senate Joint Resolution concerning

Industrial Health

FOR the purpose of requesting the Governor to appoint a
study commission to consider the problem of industrial
health and the adequacy of Workmen's Compensation

coverage, and to report to the Governor's Study

Commission on Workmen's Compensation Governor with
recommendations as to areas where legislation may be
necessary.

The quality of industrial health is a prime issue at
all levels of government. There is great concern as to the
adequacy of proper protection for workers from adverse
health exposures.

A further concomitant of this problem is the adequacy
of present legislation in our Workmen's Compensation Laws to
properly take care of those workers whose health and earning
power are affected by everchanging and new technologies
whose impact on workers has not been fully explored; now,
therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the
Governor is requested to appoint a study commission to
consider the problem of industrial health and the adequacy
of present Workmen's Compensation coverage; and be it
further

RESOLVED, That the study commission consist of 11 15
members, three from industry, three from labor, and three
from the public at large two who are physicians experienced

in the field of___industrial health, one from the mutual

insurance companies, one from the stock insurance companies,

one from the self insured employers and two from the

Governor's Study Commission on Workmen's Compensation, all
appointed by the Governor, with the Chairman of the