HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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AN ACT concerning

Pensions - Membership and Benefits

FOR the purpose of providing that only certain judges are
excluded from the provisions regarding continuation of
membership under the Employees' Retirement System and
not members of the General Assembly; providing that
only retirement allowances be paid from the retirement
fund for payment of pensions to former judges and their
spouses and not lump sum death benefits on account of
death in active service; and clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 73B - Pensions

Section 3(8), 57(b), and 117(13) and (14)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Replacement Volume and 1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 73B - Pensions

3.

(8) (a) Any person who is a member of the retirement
system, established by this subtitle, on December 31, 1979
shall continue to be a member unless on January 1, 1980 or
the first day of any month thereafter through and including
July 1, 1980, or any subsequent July 1, he becomes a member
of the Pension System for Employees of the State of Maryland
by filing with the board of trustees, at least 90 days
before, on the form the board requires an executed waiver of
all benefits which might inure to him under this retirement
system.

(b)  Any person who is not a member of the
retirement system, established under this article, on
December 31, 1979 or who becomes an employee on or after
that date may not be eligible for membership in this
retirement system.

(c)  Paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection do
not apply to [the classes of employees listed below. Any
person who becomes an employee of the listed classifications
shall become a member of this retirement system as a
condition of employment. The classifications are:

(i) Any judge as defined in subtitle
"Pensions of Judges and Their Surviving Spouses" in this
article; and