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Employee Benefits, Division of, appropriation to ...............................          13 743

910
Executive Pay Plan -

Salary schedule for FY 1997 .............................................................         13 903

Transportation Department, salary schedule for FY 1997..............          13 924

Full-Time Equivalent Positions -

Counts of contractual positions, requirements.................................          13 928

Total number authorized, determination required ..........................          13 929

Heritage Areas Authority and Financing Fund, established; Maryland

System of Recognized and Certified Heritage Areas, established . 601 3464
Law enforcement officers employed by the Maryland Investigative
Services Unit, pension provisions altered; name of Natural
Resources Pension System changed to Law Enforcement Officers'

Pension System................................................................................... 438 2739

Leave taken by State employees, annual report requirements altered          10 233

Local governments participating in the State employee's retirement
systems, obligations to contribute to funding of Employees'
Retirement and Pension Systems or Local Fire and Police System,

provisions altered ............................................................................... 661 3739

Montgomery County -

Health department, local, and local department of social services,
transfer of duties from the State to county government, State

funding, and transfer of State employees, provisions added ....... 476 2837

Morgan State University, limitation on number of positions,

provisions added.................................................................................          13 868

Natural Resources Pension System, transfer of funds from State's

employees' systems ............................................................................. 581 3303

Nonclassified State government positions, appropriation for salaries .          13 896

Number and classes of authorized State positions, determination and

limitation.............................................................................................          13 896

927
Retirement -
Compensation limit applicable to annual compensation taken into
account when determining retirement allowances, provisions

added ............................................................................................... 608 3540

Death benefits for surviving spouses of deceased members of
Employees' Pension System, Teachers' Pension System, or Local
Fire and Police System, retroactive application of changes,

provisions added ............................................................................. 591 3410

Early retirement, implementation of resulting salary and benefits
reductions, and list of vacated and abolished positions,

requirements added........................................................................          13 933

Optional Retirement Program, application limited to contributions
made by the State; authorization for companies to offer
supplemental retirement accounts to which employees may

contribute, provisions altered ........................................................ 619 3570

Payment on death of retiree, and funding of military service credit,
provisions altered ........................................................................... 618 3563

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