WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 161

21-306.

[(a) (1) The Injured Workers Rehabilitation Committee shall advise the State
Workers' Compensation Commission about the rehabilitation of each injured worker,
whether or not the worker is eligible for workers' compensation.

(2) Acting through the Committee, the medical adviser to the Division of
Rehabilitation Services may advise the State Workers' Compensation Commission on the
effectiveness of the treatment given to any injured worker who has been referred by the
rehabilitation program.]

[(b)]The State Workers' Compensation Commission:

(1)     Shall establish a rehabilitation program; AND

(2)     May employ the necessary rehabilitation counselors and clerical staff to
review all reports and claims[;

(3)     Shall select from the reports and claims filed with it those for which
rehabilitation services appear to be appropriate;

(4)     After proper investigation and within 60 days after the injury occurred
or as soon as possible after that, shall refer all appropriate cases to the Division of
Rehabilitation Services;

(5)     On request of the Division of Rehabilitation Services, shall make
available to the Division a complete medical evaluation, including a prognosis of work
potential of any worker whose case it refers to the Division; and

(6)     Shall pay the salaries of the employees of the workers' compensation
rehabilitation program and all necessary expenses incurred:

(i) In investigating and reviewing all reports and claims; and

(ii) For supplies, furniture, and office space].

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section(s) 21-307 and
21-308, respectively, of Article - Education of the Annotated Code of Maryland be
renumbered to be Section(s) 21-306 and 21-307, respectively.

SECTION 2 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1993.

Approved April 26, 1993.

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