5244                                              VETOES

Senate Bill 265, which was passed by the General
Assembly and signed by me on June 1, 1982 accomplishes the
same purpose. Therefore, it is not necessary for me to sign
House Bill 482.

Sincerely,
Harry Hughes
Governor

House Bill No. 491

AN ACT concerning

Pensions - Eligibility Service

FOR the purpose of repealing the provisions that define
"service" for purposes of eligibility in the Employees'
and Teachers' Pension Systems.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 73B - Pensions

Section 114 and 143

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 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 73B - Pensions

114.

(1) Except as hereinafter provided, all service with
the State rendered by an employee on or after January 1,
1980 and before his retirement shall be eligibility service
for the purposes of this pension system. If an employee
completes at least 700 hours of service in any fiscal year,
he shall be credited for a full year of eligibility service.
Except for the prorating of hours worked in the first and
last years, if an employee completes less than 700 hours of
service in any fiscal year, he may not receive any
eligibility service credit for that year. There shall be a
break in service with respect to any fiscal year after the
year in which an employee first becomes employed during
which he does not complete more than 350 hours of service