2196                                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                                         Ch. 297

CHAPTER 297

(Senate Bill 2)

AN ACT concerning

Unemployment Insurance - Continuous Part-Time Employment

FOR the purpose of exempting an employer who employs an
individual on a continuous part-time basis from
experience-rating charges for benefits paid due to the
individual's separation from other employment while employed
by that continuous part-time employer.

BY adding to

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 8(c)(12)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

8.

(c) Each employer shall pay contributions with respect to
employment during any fiscal year prior to July 1, 1964, as
required by this article prior to July 1, 1964, and each employer
shall pay contributions at the standard rate of two and
seven-tenths (2.7) percent of wages paid by him during the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 1964, and during each fiscal year
thereafter with respect to employment occurring after June 30,
1964, except as otherwise provided herein.

(12) THE EXPERIENCE-RATING ACCOUNT OF AN EMPLOYER WHO
PAYS CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER THIS SECTION MAY NOT BE CHARGED FOR
BENEFITS PAID TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS BEEN CONTINUOUSLY EMPLOYED
BY THAT EMPLOYER ON A PART-TIME BASIS IF THE PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT
CONTINUES WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL IS SEPARATED FROM OTHER EMPLOYMENT
AND IS OTHERWISE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 15, 1984.