ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor

Ch. 108

(2) The benefits received under this title shall be adjusted so that the
weekly total of those benefits and retirement benefits does not exceed the weekly
salary that was paid to the paid law enforcement employee of the Department of
Natural Resources, firefighter, fire fighting instructor, sworn member of the Office of
the State Fire Marshal, police officer, deputy sheriff, or Prince George's County
correctional officer.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, notwithstanding the
provisions of § 9-503(b)(2) of the Labor and Employment Article, as enacted by
Section 1 of this Act, a Baltimore City deputy sheriff who is employed on or before
September 30, 2003:

(1)     as a condition of continued employment shall provide to the Baltimore City
Sheriff on or before December 31, 2003, a copy of a medical report disclosing and
describing any existing heart disease or hypertension from which the deputy sheriff
may be suffering; and

(2)     is entitled to the presumption under § 9-503(b) of the Labor and
Employment Article, as enacted by Section 1 of this Act, only to the extent that the
individual suffers from heart disease or hypertension that is more severe than the
individual's heart disease or hypertension condition existing as of the date of the
medical report provided under paragraph (1) of this section.

SECTION 2. 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 2003.

Approved April 22, 2003.

CHAPTER 108
(Senate Bill 669)

AN ACT concerning

Health - General - Anatomy Board - Powers and Duties

FOR the purpose of repealing the Anatomy Board's powers and duties to adopt certain
regulations for the operation of a certain surgical laboratory and to adopt
certain regulations to implement certain improved anatomical methods; and
generally relating to the powers and duties of the Anatomy Board.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 5-404.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

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

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