HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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FOR the purpose of deleting provisions pertaining to the
national indicators for extended benefits; modifying
the State indicators for extended benefits; specifying
that regular benefits shall be utilized in the
calculation of the insured unemployment rate; requiring
that an individual must be paid certain amounts of
wages for insured work in order to be eligible for
extended benefits; with respect to disqualification
from extended benefits, defining suitable work to mean
work which is listed with the Division of Employment
Service or is offered in writing; providing that the
effective date for altering the State indicators for

extended benefits shall be changed under certain

circumstances; providing that the State indicators for
extended benefits shall automatically decrease under
certain circumstances; and making certain technical
corrections.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 21(a), (c), (f), and (k)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

21.

(a) As used in this section, unless the context
clearly requires otherwise --

(1) There is an "extended benefit period" which
means a period which:

(i) Begins with the third week after
[whichever of the following weeks occurs first:

A.  A week for which there is a
national "on" indicator, or

B.  A] THE FIRST week for which
there is a State "on" indicator; and

(ii) Ends with either of the following
weeks, whichever occurs later:

A. The third week after the first
week for which there is [both a national "off" indicator
and] a State "off" indicator; or