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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 793

(Senate Bill 255)

AN ACT concerning

Unemployment Insurance - Child Support Obligations

FOR the purpose of providing that certain child support
obligations being enforced by a State or local child
support agency in accordance with the Federal Social
Security Act shall be deducted and withheld from
unemployment insurance benefits under certain
circumstances; requiring that the amount deducted and
withheld be paid to the appropriate child support
enforcement agency; requiring the child support
enforcement agency to pay certain administrative costs;
requiring each claimant to disclose certain
information; and making provisions of this Act
severable.

BY adding to

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 5A

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

5A.

(A)  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:

(1)  "CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS" MEANS
OBLIGATIONS WHICH ARE BEING ENFORCED PURSUANT TO A PLAN
DESCRIBED IN SECTION 454 OF THE FEDERAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACT
WHICH HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE U.S. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES PURSUANT TO PART D OF TITLE IV OF THE FEDERAL
SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.

(2)  "STATE OR LOCAL CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY" MEANS ANY AGENCY OF A STATE OR POLITICAL SUBDIVISION
THEREOF OPERATING PURSUANT TO A PLAN DESCRIBED IN SECTION
454 OF THE FEDERAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACT AND WHICH HAS BEEN
APPROVED BY THE U.S. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PURSUANT TO PART D OF TITLE IV OF THE FEDERAL SOCIAL
SECURITY ACT.

(B)  ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO FILES A NEW CLAIM FOR
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS SHALL DISCLOSE WHETHER OR
NOT HE OWES CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS.