ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 456

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 2003.

Approved May 22, 2003.

CHAPTER 456
(House Bill 937)

AN ACT concerning

Election Law - Employee Membership Entities - Collection and Transmittal
of Campaign Contributions by Employer

FOR the purpose of requiring an employer who withholds by payroll deduction an
employee's dues to an employee membership entity to also collect certain
campaign contributions specified by the employee for certain affiliated political
action committees and then transmit the contributions to the employee
membership entity in accordance with certain requirements; and generally
relating to an employer's collection and transmittal of an employee's campaign
contributions to an employee membership entity.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Election Law
Section 13-242
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2003 Volume)

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

Article - Election Law

13-242.

(a)     (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.

(2)     "Affiliated political action committee" means a political action
committee affiliated with an employee membership entity.

(3)     "Employee membership entity" means an organization whose
membership includes employees of the employer.

(b)     If an employer withholds from employees by payroll deduction the
employees' dues to an employee membership entity[,]:

(1) [an] THE employee ALSO may [contribute] MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS
by payroll deduction to one or more affiliated political action committees selected by
the employee; AND

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