Approved May 13, 1999.

CHAPTER 340
(Senate Bill 314)

AN ACT concerning

Workers' Compensation - Offset of Benefits

FOR the purpose of clarifying that certain workers' compensation benefits should be
offset only for a payment of certain disability retirement benefits; and generally
relating to the offset of workers' compensation benefits.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Labor and Employment

Section 9-610(a) 

Annotated Code of Maryland 

(1991 Volume and 1998 Supplement)

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

Article - Labor and Employment

9-610.

(a) (1) Except for benefits subject to an offset under § 29-118 of the State
Personnel and Pensions Article, if a statute, charter, ordinance, resolution,
regulation, or policy, regardless of whether part of a pension system, provides a
benefit to a covered employee of a governmental unit or a quasi-public corporation
that is subject to this title under § 9-201(2) of this title or, in case of death, to the
dependents of the covered employee, payment of the benefit by the employer satisfies,
to the extent of the payment, the liability of the employer and the subsequent injury
fund for payment of SIMILAR benefits under this title.

(2) If a benefit paid under paragraph (1) of this subsection is less than
the benefits provided under this title, the employer, the Subsequent Injury Fund, or
both shall provide an additional benefit that equals the difference between the benefit
paid under paragraph (1) of this subsection and the benefits provided under this title.

(3) The computation of an additional benefit payable under paragraph
(2) of this section shall be done at the time of the initial award and may not include
any cost of living adjustment after the initial award.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1999.

Approved May 13, 1999.