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Ch. 298
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Martin O'Malley, Governor
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CHAPTER 298
(House Bill 1180)
AN ACT concerning
Unemployment Insurance - Maximum Benefit Schedule of Benefits
FOR the purpose of increasing the maximum weekly unemployment insurance benefit
amount by a specified amount over a certain period of time altering the
schedule of benefits of weekly unemployment insurance benefits so as to
increase the amount of the weekly benefit amount up to a certain maximum
weekly benefit amount, based on certain high quarter wages; providing for the
application of this Act; and generally relating to unemployment insurance
benefits.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Labor and Employment
Section 8-803
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Replacement Volume and 2006 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Labor and Employment
8-803.
(a) (1) To determine the weekly benefit amount to assign to a claimant in
the schedule of benefits in subsection (b) of this section, the line in the schedule of
benefits shall be located in which the high quarter wages in column (A) correspond to
wages that the claimant was paid for covered employment in the calendar quarter of
the claimant's base period in which those wages were highest.
(2) (I) [The] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBPARAGRAPH (II) OF
THIS PARAGRAPH, THE claimant shall be assigned:
[(i)] 1. the weekly benefit amount in column (B) of the
schedule for that line; or
[(ii)] 2. if the claimant is not eligible under § 8-802 of this
subtitle for that weekly benefit amount but was paid wages to qualify in 1 of the next 6
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