HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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each year thereafter, the retirement system administration
shall notify every member who retired after July 1, 1958,
with 30 or more years of service and who is receiving less
than [$5,000] $7,000 in annual retirement allowance, that
the member may be eligible for the supplemental allowance.
Such notification shall include an appropriate application
form requiring the applicant to certify the annual amount of
social security benefits received. The application form
must be filed with the retirement system administration 30
days prior to the calendar year in which the supplemental
allowance would apply. The administration shall determine
if the member's social security benefits when combined with
the member's retirement allowance computed without option,
is less than [$5,000] $7,000. In the case the combined
benefit without option is less than [$5,000] $7,000, the
member shall receive a supplemental allowance in the amount
of the difference.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 621

(House Bill 483)

AN ACT concerning

Pensions - Annuity Election

FOR the purpose of providing that officials elected or
appointed prior to a certain date need not be
terminated involuntarily to elect to have their
accumulated contributions paid as an annuity; and
providing that officials elected or appointed initially
elected or initially appointed after a certain date,
members promoted to an unclassified position after a
certain date, or members whose tenure is terminated by
acts of the General Assembly after a certain date may
not elect to have accumulated contributions in the
State Employees' Retirement and Pension Systems paid as
an annuity; and generally relating to the election of
an annuity.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 73B - Pensions

Section 11(12) and 117(13)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Replacement Volume and. 1981 Supplement)