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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 147

(3)  Education funding from State or local
sources may not be reduced if there are less than 180 school
days in any year because of an approved application under
this subsection.

(4)  In case of emergency, the State Board may
open schools on holidays.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by
three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 22, 1980.

CHAPTER 148

(House Bill 36)

AN ACT concerning

Group Life Insurance - Spouses and Children

FOR the purpose of altering the amount of group life
insurance that can be provided to the spouses and
children of an insured.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 48A - Insurance Code

Section 422A(1)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 48A - Insurance Code

422A.

(1) (I) Insurance under any group life insurance
policy issued pursuant to §§ 418 through 422 may, if
seventy-five per centum of the then insured employees or
members or any class or classes thereof, elect, be extended
to insure the spouse and minor children of each such insured
employee or member who so elects, in amounts in accordance
with a plan which precludes individual selection by the