HARRY HUGHES, Governor

791

Attachment of Wages - Medical Insurance Payments

FOR the purpose of exempting from wages which are the
subject of attachment any medical insurance payments
deducted from an employee's wages by the employer.

BY repealing

Article - Commercial Law
Section 15-601(a-1) and (a-2)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1975 Volume and 1979 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Commercial Law
Section 15-601.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1975 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 - Commercial Law

15-601.

[(a-1) The following amounts of wages are exempt from
attachment:

(1)  Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this
subsection, the greater of:

(i) The product of $120 multiplied by the
number of weeks in which the wages due were earned; or

(ii) 75 percent of the wages due; and

(2)  In Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, and
Worcester counties, for each work week, the greater of:

(i) 75 percent of the wages due; or

(ii) 30 times the federal minimum hourly
wages under the Fair Labor Standards Act in effect at the
time the wages are due.

(a-2) The amount subject to attachment shall be
calculated per pay period.]

15-601.1.

(A) THE FOLLOWING ARE EXEMPT FROM ATTACHMENT: