PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 11

of the 1996 Session of the General Assembly that negates or extends the effect of a
previously enacted termination provision shall prevail over the provisions of this section.

SECTION 18. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Drafter's Notes
contained in this Act are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as part
of this Act.

SECTION 19. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, except for Sections 3,
8, and 12 of this Act, the provisions of this Act are intended solely to correct technical
errors in the law and that there is no intent to revive or otherwise affect law that is the
subject of other acts, whether those acts were signed by the Governor prior to or after the
signing of this Act.

SECTION 20. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 11 of this Act,
which revives provisions that were inadvertently repealed, shall be construed retroactively
and shall be applied to computation dates on and after July 1, 1995 and shall apply to the
rate of contribution for each employing unit on and after calendar years beginning in
1996.

SECTION 21. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That any reference in the
Annotated Code rendered obsolete by an Act of the General Assembly of 1996 shall be
corrected by the publisher of the Annotated Code, the Michie Company, in consultation
with the Director of Legislative Reference, with no further action required by the
General Assembly. The Michie Company shall adequately describe any such correction in
an editor's note following the section affected.

SECTION 22. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 10 of this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1996.

SECTION 23. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, except as provided in
Section 22 of this Act, this Act is an emergency measure, is necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety, has been passed by a yea and nay vote
supported by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, and shall take effect from the date it is enacted.

Approved April 9, 1996.

CHAPTER 11
(House Bill 11)

AN ACT concerning

Insurance Article - II

FOR the purpose of adding certain titles to the Insurance Article, to revise, restate, and
recodify the laws of the State relating and pertaining to: regulation of insurance
entities operating in a financially hazardous condition, liquidation, rehabilitation,
reorganization, and conservation of impaired insurance entities, the Property and
Casualty Insurance Guaranty Corporation, the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty

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