Ch. 361                                  1995 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 361
(Senate Bill 136)

AN ACT concerning

Retirement and Pensions - Offsets for Workers' Compensation Benefits

FOR the purpose of altering a certain requirement for a reduction in disability retirement
benefits as a result of certain workers' compensation benefits to make it apply
consistently among certain State retirement and pension systems; limiting the
reduction to allow a certain minimum amount to be paid for each of those State
systems; providing that for each of those systems the retirement allowance to be
reduced is the retirement allowance at retirement; providing the construction and
application of this Act; and generally relating to the offset of disability retirement
benefits as a result of workers' compensation benefits.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Personnel and Pensions
Section 29-118
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Volume)

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

Article - State Personnel and Pensions

29-118.

(a)     This section applies to a retiree and any designated beneficiary.

(b)     (1) The Board of Trustees shall reduce a disability retirement benefit by any
related workers' compensation benefits paid or payable after the effective date of
retirement if the workers' compensation benefits:

(i) are paid or payable while a pension is paid or payable; and

(ii) are for an accidental personal injury or occupational disease
arising out of and in the course of the retiree's employment by[:

1.       the State, for a retiree of the Correctional Officers'
Retirement System, the Employees' Retirement System, the Natural Resources Pension
System, the State Police Retirement System, or the Teachers' Retirement System;

2.       the State or a participating employer for a retiree of the
Employees' Pension System or Local Fire and Police System; or

3.       a public school, for a retiree of the Teachers' Pension
System] A PARTICIPATING EMPLOYER.

(2) A retirement allowance may not be reduced to be less than[:

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