PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 372

CHAPTER 372
(Senate Bill 219)

AN ACT concerning

Disability Retirement - Procedures

FOR the purpose of allowing applications for disability under the Local Fire and Police
System, and the Natural Resources Pension System to be submitted a certain
number of years after paid employment ends; repealing certain provisions of law
that would have required certain disability benefits to be prorated as a result of
certain preexisting conditions; authorizing the Board of Trustees of the State
Retirement and Pension System to suspend a disability allowance under certain
conditions; providing for certain reemployment of certain retirees; providing for the
payment of a vested allowance under certain conditions; and generally relating to
procedures relating to disability retirement from a State retirement or pension
system.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Personnel and Pensions
Section 29-104(b) and 29-115
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Volume)

BY repealing

Article - State Personnel and Pensions
Section 29-113

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

29-104.

(b) (1) This subsection applies only to[:

(i)] an application for an ordinary or accidental disability retirement
allowance under the Employees' Pension System, LOCAL FIRE AND POLICE SYSTEM,
NATURAL RESOURCES PENSION SYSTEM, or the Teachers' Pension System [; or

(ii) an application for an accidental disability retirement allowance
under the Local Fire and Police System].

(2) For the purpose of submitting an application for disability, membership
continues for 2 years after paid employment ends.

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