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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="10-102" title_number="10" title_name="Funds" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Injured Workers' Insurance Fund">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>There is an Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Fund is an instrumentality of the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>On and after October 1, 2013, the Company, and not the Fund, shall serve as the workers’ compensation insurer of last resort for workers’ compensation insurance.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>On and after October 1, 2013, the Fund:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>shall continue to exist; but</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>may not issue new policies or otherwise engage in the business of insurance.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On and after October 1, 2013, the Fund shall be the third party administrator for the State’s Self–Insured Workers’ Compensation Program for State Employees under a contract with the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At least once every 5 years, the Commissioner shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>review the State’s Self–Insured Workers’ Compensation Program for State Employees, as administered by the Fund, to determine whether the State is receiving effective administrative services at a reasonable cost; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>submit a report to the State Treasurer on the findings of the review.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to subsection (f) of this section, in the operation of the Company, the Company shall use employees of the Company.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Subject to subsection (f) of this section, in the operation of the Fund, the Fund:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>shall use employees of the Fund; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>may use nonsupervisory employees of the Company.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Fund shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>maintain a payroll and human resources system; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>be responsible for paying:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the employer portion of any payroll or other taxes and retirement or pension contributions for employees of the Fund; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>for any health or other employee benefits that are available to employees of the Fund.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Employees of the Fund may be assigned to perform functions of the Company under a contract between the Fund and the Company.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Nonsupervisory employees of the Company may be assigned to perform functions of the Fund under a contract between the Fund and the Company.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Company and the Fund shall annually execute an agreement that lists:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the employees of the Fund who have been assigned to perform duties on behalf of the Company; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the nonsupervisory employees of the Company who have been assigned to perform duties on behalf of the Fund.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The agreement shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>specify the employees who will be utilized by the Company and the Fund;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>provide that, except with respect to assets necessary for the Fund to perform its duties under this subtitle, all assets and liabilities of the Fund are the assets and liabilities of the Company; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>be filed with the Administration.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Notwithstanding § 15–703(f)(3)(i) of the State Government Article, an employee of the Fund may register and maintain registration as a regulated lobbyist if the employee:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is assigned to perform functions of the Company under paragraph (1) of this subsection for which an employee of the Company would be required to register; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>registers on behalf of the Company.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
