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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Ch. 160
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CHAPTER 160
(House Bill 1007)
AN ACT concerning
Prince George's County - Correctional Officers - Workers' Compensation
PG 318-00
FOR the purpose of extending the presumption of compensability under the workers'
compensation law to include, subject to certain conditions, Prince George's
County correctional officers who suffer from heart disease or hypertension
resulting in partial or total disability or death; requiring certain Prince George's
County correctional officers to submit certain medical disclosures to the Director
of the Prince George's County Department of Correctional Services; providing
that, subject to a certain limitation, workers' compensation benefits received
under this Act are in addition to certain retirement benefits; making a technical
correction; and generally relating to compensability of Prince George's County
correctional officers under the workers' compensation law.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Labor and Employment
Section 9-503(b) and (e)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Replacement Volume)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Labor and Employment
9-503.
(b) (1) A paid police officer employed by an airport authority, a county, the
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, a municipality, or the
State, a deputy sheriff of Montgomery County, or, subject to paragraph (2) of this
subsection, a Prince George's County deputy sheriff OR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
CORRECTIONAL OFFICER is presumed to be suffering from an occupational disease
that was [suffered] CONTRACTED in the line of duty and is compensable under this
title if:
(i) the police officer [or], deputy sheriff, OR CORRECTIONAL
OFFICER is suffering from heart disease or hypertension; and
(ii) the heart disease or hypertension results in partial or total
disability or death.
(2) (i) A Prince George's County deputy sheriff OR PRINCE GEORGE'S
COUNTY CORRECTIONAL OFFICER is entitled to the presumption under this
subsection only to the extent that the individual suffers from heart disease or
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