864                                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                                      Ch. 195

Approved April 29, 1986.

CHAPTER 195

(House Bill 313)

AN ACT concerning

Unemployment Insurance - Work Search Exemption

FOR the purpose of providing that the Secretary of Employment and
Training may extend the work search exemption for a certain
period if certain conditions are met; making certain
technical corrections; and generally relating to work search
exemptions for unemployment insurance.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 4(c)

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.

Any unemployed individual is eligible to receive benefits
with respect to any week only if the Executive Director finds
that:

(c) He is able to work, and is available for work; provided
no claimant shall be considered ineligible in any week of
unemployment for failure to comply with provisions of this
subsection if such failure is due to illness or disability which
occurs after he has registered for work and no work which would
have been considered suitable at the time of his initial
registration has been offered after the beginning of such illness
or disability. The [Executive Director] SECRETARY shall not use
the blindness of an unsighted or other severely handicapped
person as a factor making such a person ineligible under the
"able to work" requirement of this subsection if the person was
an employee of the Maryland Workshop for the Blind immediately
prior to being unemployed. As used in this subsection, the term
"available for work" shall mean, among other things, that a
claimant is actively seeking work. In determining whether or not
the claimant has actively sought work, the [Executive Director]
SECRETARY shall consider whether the efforts he has made to