§ 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.

HISTORY: 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.