HARRY HUGHES, Governor                             2429

for review of the decisions of the medical board;
setting a certain time limit for notification of
employers by employees that the employee is suffering
from an occupational disease; clarifying certain
language; and generally relating to Workmen's
Compensation.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 22(a), 23(b), or(c) and (d), 24, and 26(a), 27,

28, 29, and 42 and (c), and 26(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1979 Replacement Volume and 1979 Supplement)

BY repealing

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 23(c) and (d), 24, 23(d), 24, 25 and 25A(g)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1979 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 23(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 101 - Workmen's Compensation

22.

(a) Where an employee of an employer subject to this
article suffers from an occupational disease, [and is
thereby disabled from performing his work in the last
occupation in which he was injuriously exposed to the
hazards of such disease, or dies as a result of such
disease, and the disease was due to the nature of the
occupation or process in which he was employed within the
period previous to his disablement as limited in §§ 23 and
24 § 23 hereof OF THIS ARTICLE,] WHICH RESULTS IN THE LOSS
OF ANY BODILY PART, OR BODILY FUNCTION, OR PARTIAL LOSS OF
ANY BODILY PART OR FUNCTION, OR WHEN THE DISEASE PREVENTS
THE EMPLOYEE FROM PERFORMING HIS WORK, OR WHEN DEATH RESULTS
FROM THE OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE, the employee, or[,] in case
of his death, his dependents shall be entitled to
compensation in the amount and payable in the manner
provided elsewhere in this article, as if [such] THE