CHAPTER 73
(House Bill 160)

AN ACT concerning

Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority - Participation in State
Health and Welfare Benefits Program

FOR the purpose of authorizing certain employees and retirees of the Northeast
Maryland Waste Disposal Authority to participate in the State Employee and
Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program; requiring the Authority to make
certain payments to the State for certain health and welfare benefits; and
generally relating to the health and welfare benefits of employees and retirees of
the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Personnel and Pensions
Section 2-511

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1997 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

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

Article - State Personnel and Pensions

2-511.

(a) This section applies to employees of the Maryland Environmental Service
AND NORTHEAST MARYLAND WASTE DISPOSAL AUTHORITY.

(b) Subject to the regulations adopted under § 2-503 of this subtitle, an
employee or, while receiving an allowance under the Employees' Retirement System
of the State of Maryland or the Employees' Pension System of the State of Maryland,
an employee's surviving spouse:

(1) may enroll and participate in the health insurance or other benefit
options established under the Program; and

(2) except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, is subject to the
same terms and conditions as those provided under § 2-507 of this subtitle.

(c) While receiving an allowance under the Employees' Retirement System of
the State of Maryland or the Employees' Pension System of the State of Maryland, a
former employee or a former employee's surviving spouse or dependent child:

(1) may enroll and participate in the health insurance benefit options
established under the Program; and

(2) except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, is subject to the
same terms and conditions as those provided under § 2-508 of this subtitle, with the