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SENATE BILL 402
P6 EMERGENCY BILL 2lr0157
CF HB 417
By: The President (By Request – Administration) and Senators Bailey, Carozza,
Cassilly, Corderman, Eckardt, Edwards, Elfreth, Gallion, Hershey, Hester,
Jennings, Ready, Salling, Simonaire, and West
Introduced and read first time: January 24, 2022
Assigned to: Budget and Taxation
Committee Report: Favorable with amendments
Senate action: Adopted
Read second time: February 25, 2022
CHAPTER ______
AN ACT concerning 1
Employees’ Retirement and Pension Systems – Reemployment Earnings 2
Limitation – COVID–19 Exemption 3
FOR the purpose of exempting certain retirees of the Employees’ Retirement and Pension 4
Systems from a certain earnings limitation when the retiree is reemployed by certain 5
previous employers for a certain time period to assist with the administration of 6
certain grants or benefits related to the COVID–19 pandemic; providing for the 7
retroactive application of this Act; and generally relating to a reemployment 8
earnings limitation in the Employees’ Retirement and Pension Systems. 9
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED B Y THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 10
That: 11
(a) Except for individuals whose retirement allowance is subject to a reduction as 12
provided under § 22–406(c)(1)(iii) and (3) or § 23–407(c)(1)(iii) and (3) of the State Personnel 13
and Pensions Article, the reduction of a retirement allowance under § 22–406 or § 23–407 14
of the State Personnel and Pensions Article does not apply to: 15
(1) an individual who was previously employed by the Maryland 16
Department of Health State of Maryland, retired, and is rehired by the Maryland 17
Department of Health for a period not to exceed 3 years to: 18
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(i) assist in the administration of federally funded grants related to 1
the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19) pandemic; or 2
(ii) work, as a member of the COVID Unified Command, on projects 3
directly related to COVID–19 staffing support or contact tracing; and 4
(2) an individual who was previously employed by the Maryland 5
Department of Labor, retired, and is rehired by the Maryland Department of Labor for a 6
period not to exceed 3 years within the Division of Unemployment Insurance to assist with 7
the administration of benefits related to the COVID–19 pandemic. 8
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be construed to apply 9
retroactively to January 1, 2020. 10
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is an emergency 11
measure, is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health or safety, has 12
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three–fifths of all the members elected to 13
each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, and shall take effect from the date it is 14
enacted. It shall remain effective through December 31, 2022, and, at the end of December 15
31, 2022, this Act, with no further action required by the General Assembly, shall be 16
abrogated and of no further force and effect. 17
Approved:
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Governor.
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President of the Senate.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates.