H.B. 977                                                  VETOES

number of times an individual, who is otherwise eligible to receive benefits, has to earn
a certain weekly benefit amount when the individual was disqualified from receiving
unemployment as a result of aggravated misconduct; and providing for the application of
this Act.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Labor and Employment
Section 8-803.1 8-611(e) and 8-1002.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing

Article - Labor and Employment

Section 8-803.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1991 Volume and 1994 Supplement)

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

Article - Labor and Employment

8-611.

(e) The Secretary may not charge benefits paid to a claimant against the earned rating
record of an employing unit if:

(1) the claimant left employment voluntarily without good cause attributable to
the employing unit;

(2) the claimant was discharged by the employing unit for gross misconduct as
defined in § 8-1002 of this title;

(3) THE CLAIMANT WAS DISCHARGED BY THE EMPLOYING UNIT FOR
AGGRAVATED MISCONDUCT AS DEFINED IN § 8-1002.1 OF THIS TITLE;

[(3)](4) the claimant left employment voluntarily to accept better employment
or enter training approved by the Secretary; or

[(4)](5) the employing unit participates in a work release program that is
designed to give an inmate of a correctional institution an opportunity to work while
imprisoned and unemployment was the result of the claimant's release from prison.

[8-803.1.

(A) For purposes of determining the weekly benefit amount in any benefit year
under § 8-803 of this subtitle, the wages which were paid to an individual for covered
employment do not include any wages paid to the individual by a base period employer
against whom the individual has committed aggravated misconduct that has resulted in a
disqualification from receiving benefits under § 8-1002.1 of this title during any benefit
year.]

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