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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 505

BY adding to

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 22 and 23

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section(s) 22 and 23, respectively, of
Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law, of the Annotated
Code of Maryland be renumbered to be Section(s) 24 and 25,
respectively.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That section(s)
of the Annotated Code of Maryland read(s) as follows:

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

22.

(A)  IF THE BENEFIT YEAR OF ANY INDIVIDUAL ENDS WITHIN
AN EXTENDED BENEFIT PERIOD, THEN THE REMAINING BALANCE OF
EXTENDED BENEFITS THAT THE INDIVIDUAL IS ENTITLED TO
RECEIVE, WITH RESPECT TO WEEKS OF UNEMPLOYMENT BEGINNING
AFTER THE END OF THE BENEFIT YEAR, SHALL BE REDUCED (BUT NOT
BELOW ZERO) BY THE PRODUCT OF THE NUMBER OF WEEKS FOR WHICH
THE INDIVIDUAL RECEIVED ANY AMOUNTS AS TRADE READJUSTMENT
ALLOWANCES (UNDER THE FEDERAL TRADE ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED)
WITHIN THAT BENEFIT YEAR, MULTIPLIED BY THE INDIVIDUAL'S
WEEKLY BENEFIT AMOUNT FOR EXTENDED BENEFITS.

(B)  (1) AN OTHERWISE ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL SHALL NOT BE
DENIED REGULAR OR EXTENDED BENEFITS FOR ANY WEEK BECAUSE THE
INDIVIDUAL:

(I)  IS IN A TRAINING PROGRAM APPROVED
UNDER § 236(A)(1) OF THE FEDERAL TRADE ACT OF 1974, AS
AMENDED; OR

(II)  HAS LEFT WORK, WHICH IS NOT SUITABLE
EMPLOYMENT, TO ENTER A TRAINING PROGRAM DESCRIBED IN
SUBPARAGRAPH (I).

(2) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBSECTION, "SUITABLE
EMPLOYMENT" MEANS:

(I) WORK OF A SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL OR
HIGHER SKILL LEVEL THAN THE INDIVIDUAL'S PAST ADVERSELY
AFFECTED EMPLOYMENT AS DEFINED UNDER THE FEDERAL TRADE ACT
OF 1974, AS AMENDED; AND