PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 350

CHAPTER 350
(Senate Bill 370)

AN ACT concerning

Workers' Compensation - Average Weekly Wage - Multiple Employers - Serious
Permanent Partial Disability and Permanent Total Disability

FOR the purpose of providing that if, at the time of an accidental personal injury or last
injurious exposure, a covered employee was employed by another employer in
addition to the employer in whose employment the accidental personal injury or last
injurious exposure occurred, the average weekly wage of the covered employee shall
be based on the wages earned in the other employment under certain
circumstances; providing that this Act applies only to covered employees who have
suffered certain types of disability under certain circumstances; providing that the
payment of certain weekly compensation is payable by a certain employer or
insurer; requiring certain additional weekly compensation subject to certain rights
to be reimbursed by the Subsequent Injury Fund; providing for the construction of
this Act; providing that this Act be construed retroactively to apply to certain
accidental personal injuries occurring on or after a certain date; applying certain
provisions relating to the payment of additional compensation prospectively from
the effective date of this Act under certain circumstances; requiring the Workers'
Compensation Commission and the Subsequent Injury Fund to make a certain
report to certain committees by a certain date; making provisions of this Act
severable under certain circumstances; and generally relating to the computation of
the average weekly wage of a covered employee.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Labor and Employment
Section 9-602(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Labor and Employment

Section 9-602(1)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1991 Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Labor and Employment
Section 9-630 and 9-637
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Volume and 1996 Supplement

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