Section 11-201 - Retraining and placement of unemployed hospital employees. - Maryland Statutes

§ 11-201. Retraining and placement of unemployed hospital employees.
 

(a)  Establishment of program.- The Department shall establish a program for the retraining and placement of hospital employees who are unemployed or who may become unemployed as a result of the closing, delicensing, downsizing, or possible downsizing of a hospital or the merging of hospitals under § 19-325 of the Health-General Article. 

(b)  Adoption of regulations.- The Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene shall adopt regulations to implement this section. 

(c)  Retraining Fund - In general.- There is a Hospital Employees Retraining Fund. The Fund shall be used: 

(1) for the purposes described in this section; and 

(2) to pay any and all expenses of the Department in administering this section. 

(d)  Retraining Fund  - Unexpended funds.- Any unexpended funds remaining in the Hospital Employees Retraining Fund at the end of the fiscal year may not revert to the General Fund of the State. 
 

[1985, ch. 109, § 2; 1986, ch. 5, § 4; 1987, ch. 11, § 2; ch. 311, § 1; 1988, ch. 6, § 8; 1993, ch. 383, § 4; 1995, ch. 120, §§ 2, 5.]