HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                    1611

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law
Section 4(e) and 6(a), (b), and (d)

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1985 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law
4.

(e) An individual who has received benefits in a benefit

year shall not be eligible for benefits in a subsequent benefit
year unless such individual earns, after the beginning of the
first benefit year, wages as a result of performing services in
[the employ of another] INSURED WORK, equal to not less than ten
times his weekly benefit amount for the subsequent benefit year.

6.

An individual shall be disqualified for benefits:

(a)  If the Executive Director finds that the individual's
unemployment is due to his leaving work voluntarily without good
cause. Only a cause which is directly attributable to, arising
from, or connected with the conditions of employment or actions
of the employer may be considered good cause. The individual's
disqualification shall be effective for the week in which the
unemployment began and shall continue (1) for not less than 4 nor
more than 9 weeks immediately thereafter, according to the
seriousness of valid circumstances as determined in each case by
the Executive Director or (2) until the individual has become
[employed] REEMPLOYED and has earnings [therein] IN INSURED WORK
equal to at least ten times his weekly benefit amount. Leaving
work to become self-employed, to accompany or join one's spouse
in a new locality, or to attend an educational institution is
neither good cause nor a valid circumstance for voluntarily
leaving work. Only a substantial cause which is directly
attributable to, arising from, or connected with the conditions
of employment or actions of the employer, or another cause of
such a necessitous or compelling nature that the individual had
no reasonable alternative other than to leave the employment may
be considered a valid circumstance. If the individual leaves his
employment because of a circumstance relating to the health of
the individual or another person who must be cared for by the
individual, the individual must furnish a written statement or
other documentary evidence of that health problem from a
physician or hospital.

(b)  For any week in which his unemployment is due to his
having been discharged or suspended as a disciplinary measure for