Total required to be withheld on wages for purposes of
withholding tables and withholding schedules, calculation,
provisions altered .......................................................................

Injured Workers' Insurance Fund, exemption from excessive
premium growth charge or other penalty associated with
premium growth in any risk based capital calculation,
provisions added .............................................................................

Job-related substance abuse testing, saliva added to list of
permitted specimens ......................................................................

Labor disputes, Commissioner of Labor and Industry authorized
to charge a fee for mediation services ..........................................

Local fire and police system retirees, reemployment earnings
limitation exemption, unless reemployed by same employer that
employed them when they retired, provisions added ..................

Maryland Health Insurance Program (MHIP), qualifications for
enrollment expanded, composition of board altered, and request
for federal approval as "alternative mechanism" under HIPAA
required; offer of medigap policies to certain persons whose
employee welfare benefit plan is terminated, required ..............

State Employees -
Administrative leave for service as election judge, provisions

added ...........................................................................................

Military administrative leave, provisions added .........................

Subsequent Injury Fund, assessment payable by employer or
insurer, rate increase termination date repealed ........................

Support order earnings withholding orders, payments through
State disbursement unit, requirements added ............................

Tax credits to employer for wages, child care, and transportation
costs of employee who is welfare recipient or person with
disability, termination date extended ...........................................

Tax wage lien, expanded to apply to any type of tax administered
by the Comptroller under the Tax - General Article of the
Annotated Code of Maryland ........................................................

Unemployment Insurance Funding Task Force, established; report
required ...........................................................................................

Wage and Hour Law, termination date extended............................

Washington County -

Home detention program, work release program, and pretrial
release program, establishment and administration

provisions added and altered .....................................................

Prospective county employees, criminal history records checks
and background investigations, provisions added....................

Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, collective bargaining
and binding arbitration for merit system employees, and
appointment of Labor Relations Administrator, provisions added

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

203	1829
60	1140
88	1203
316	2340
211	1930
2	7
367	2606
389	2801
63	1147
118	1283
454	3081
203	1841
269	2209
316	2340
47	1085
333	2425
424	2949