3280                                  LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 521

FOR the purpose of altering the size of the Workmen's
Compensation Commission; providing for continuing

education in occupational disease; abolishing

terminating the medical board of the Workmen's
Compensation Commission; empowering the Workmen's
Compensation Commission to hear and decide occupational
disease claims after a certain date; creating an

advisory list of physicians that may advise the

Commission upon its request; providing for the

qualifications and selection of physicians to the
advisory list; providing for the duties; functions, and
reimbursement of advising physicians; providing that

certain courts reviewing a Workmen's Compensation

Commission decision or appeal shall hear the matter de
nove; repealing, effective on a certain date, a
requirement that in certain appeals the findings of
fact by the Workmen's Compensation Commission shall be
final and not subject to review or modification by a
court or jury; clarifying language; and providing for
conducting a certain review for the purpose of making a
certain determination, involving the medical board of
the Workmen's Compensation Commission; generally
relating to occupational disease claims before the
Workmen's Compensation Commission; and providing an
effective date for certain enactments.

BY repealing

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 27, 28, and 29

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 27, 28, and 29
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1979 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 101 - Workmen's Compensation

Section 1(b), 17(b)(3) 2, 22(c), 27, 56(a), and

67(15)
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: