HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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his REPORTED annual payrolls for the three calendar years
immediately preceding that computation date. However, for any
employer who has not been subject to the provisions of this
article for a period of time sufficient to meet the
three-calendar-year requirement, that benefit ratio is the
quotient obtained by dividing the total benefits chargeable to
his experience-rating record and paid during the entire period,
ending on December 31 immediately preceding the computation date,
that he has been subject to this article by the total amount of
wages for employment paid by the employer during the period
beginning with the first day of the calendar quarter in which he
first became subject to the provisions of this article and ending
on December 31 of the calendar year immediately preceding that
computation date, with respect to which wages [contributions]
have been [paid] REPORTED on or before that computation date.
That benefit ratio shall be computed to the fourth decimal point.

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

Approved May 29, 1984.

CHAPTER 709

(House Bill 1570)

AN ACT concerning

Emergency Medical Treatment - Petition

FOR the purpose of requiring a court to hear and rule on a
petition seeking an order for emergency medical treatment of
a child on an expedited basis and pass an order immediately;
and requiring a court to hear and rule on a petition seeking
appointment of a guardian of the person of a disabled person
in connection with medical treatment for an emergency on an
expedited basis and to pass an order immediately medical
treatment on an expedited basis.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 3-812

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Estates and Trusts
Section 13-705