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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 878

Schedule of Basic Rate Adjustments

When Ratio Between Fund Balance
on Computation Date and Total
Taxable Wages for Prior Year Is

Employer's Contribution
Basic Rate Shall

[A up to 3.5%]	[Increase	by 3.0%]
[B 3.5% but less than 3.6%]	Increase	by 2.7%
A UP TO 3.6%
[C] B 3.6% but less than 3.7%	Increase	by 2.4%
[D] C 3.7% but less than 3.8%	Increase	by 2.1%
[E] D 3.8% but less than 3.9%	Increase	by 1.8%
[F] E 3.9% but less than 4.0%	Increase	by 1.5%
[G] F 4.0% but less than 4.1%	Increase	by 1.2%
[H] G 4.1% but less than 4.2%	Increase	by .9%
[I] H 4.2% but less than 4.3%	Increase	by .6%
[J] I 4.3% but less than 4.4%	Increase	by .3%
[K] J 4.4% but less than 4.5%	Increase	by .1%
[L] K 5.5% but less than 6.0%	Decrease	by .3%
[M] L 6.0% but less than 6.5%	Decrease	by .6%
[N] M 6.5% but less than 7.0%	Decrease	by .9%
[0] N 7.0% but less than 7.5%	Decrease	by 1.2%
[P] O 7.5% but less than 8.0%	Decrease	by 1.5%
[Q] P 8.0% but less than 8.5%	Decrease	by 1.8%
[R] Q 8.5% or over	Decrease	by 2.1%

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED,
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved May 27, 1980.

That this Act

CHAPTER 879

(Senate Bill 655)

AN ACT concerning

Unemployment Insurance - Contributions, Benefits
and Disqualifications

FOR the purpose of amending certain provisions of the
Unemployment Insurance Law pertaining to claimants'
weekly benefit amounts and disqualifications from
benefits and employers' contributions; adding divisions
to the schedule of benefits; providing for automatic
adjustments to the schedule of benefits on certain
dates; specifying which schedule of benefits will apply
to claimants; deleting certain divisions from the
schedule of benefits and increasing the minimum high
quarter wages which must be earned in insured work in
order for a claimant to be eligible for benefits;
increasing the taxable wage base; providing for