MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 23

Approved March 16, 1976.

CHAPTER 15
(Senate Bill 317)

AN ACT concerning

Corrective Bill — State Employees' Retirement System

FOR the purpose of correcting a technical error in the
laws relating to the Employees' Retirement System of
the State of Maryland.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 73B — Pensions

Section 11(16a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1970 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 11 (16a) of Article 73B - Pensions,
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Replacement
Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed
and reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 73B — Pensions

11.

(16a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
this article, any person who receives his retirement
annuity through the Employees' Retirement System of the
State of Maryland may elect to have the premium or any
part thereof, for locally approved medical insurance
participated in by the City of Baltimore or any of THE
counties, deducted from his annuity by the Employees'
Retirement System of the State of Maryland and returned
to the appropriate jurisdiction for payment on his behalf
to the carrier so approved. However, neither the
Employees' Retirement System of the State of Maryland or
instrumentality shall be otherwise responsible for the
payment of any part of the premium for the
above—mentioned medical insurance approved by the City of
Baltimore or any of the counties.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.