HARRY HUGHES, Governor                             3233

automatic adjustments to the taxable wage base on
certain dates; providing for a specific 1-year
adjustment to the schedule of basic rates; changing the

schedule of basic rate adjustments modifying the

Schedule of Basic Rate Adjustments which applies to
employers contributing to the Unemployment Insurance
Fund; adjusting the maximum rate at which employers may
be required to pay contributions under certain
circumstances; specifying certain acts which are
neither a good cause nor a valid circumstance for
voluntarily leaving work; altering the disqualification
for failure to apply for or accept suitable work;
deleting obsolete provisions; and clarifying certain
language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

Section 3(b), 4(d)(1), 6(a) and (d), (c)(4) and

20(n)(1) and 8(c)(4)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1979 Replacement Volume and 1979 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 95A - Unemployment Insurance Law

3.

(b) (1) Weekly Benefit Amount. An individual's
"weekly benefit amount" shall be determined by applying the
total of wages paid him for insured work in that calendar
quarter of his base period in which such total wages were
highest to column (A) in "schedule of benefits" set forth
below OR AS SET FORTH IN REGULATIONS PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH
(2) BELOW. Upon determination as to the division of said
schedule for which such individual's high quarter wages
qualify, the weekly benefit amount shall be the amount shown
on the same line in column (B).

Provided, if a claimant had not earned qualifying
wages, as required in § 4(d) of this article, for the weekly
benefit amount shown in the schedule of benefits on the
basis of his earnings in the calendar quarter of the base
period in which his earnings were highest, but did earn
qualifying wages for [a lower division on said] ONE OF THE
NEXT THREE LOWER DIVISIONS ON THE schedule, he is to be
considered eligible for benefits as shown in [said] THAT
NEXT lower division. [Provided further, that in no event
shall any claimant be permitted to drop down more than three
divisions as shown on the said schedule of benefits.]

SCHEDULE OF BENEFITS