1. (1) Each hospital shall pay a fee directly to the Maryland Department of Labor. The fee shall not exceed 0.01 percent of the gross operating revenue for the fiscal year immediately preceding the closure or delicensing of the hospital. A fee shall only be assessed once for each voluntary closure, merger, or delicensure.
2. (2) The Secretary of Labor shall pay the fees received under this section into the Hospital Employees Training Fund established under § 11-201 of the Labor and Employment Article.

If a hospital voluntarily closes, merges, or is delicensed under § 19-325 of this subtitle and workers are displaced:

Added by Acts 1985, c. 109, § 2, eff. June 1, 1985. Amended by Acts 1986, c. 5, § 4, eff. July 1, 1986; Acts 1987, c. 11, § 2, eff. April 2, 1987; Acts 1987, c. 311, §§ 1, 6, eff. July 1, 1987; Acts 1988, c. 6, §§ 1, 8, 12, eff. July 1, 1988; Acts 1989, c. 5, § 1, eff. March 9, 1989; Acts 1995, c. 120, § 19, eff. July 19, 1995; Acts 1996, c. 10, § 21, eff. April 9, 1996; Acts 1997, c. 32, § 3, eff. April 8, 1997; Acts 2019, c. 91, § 7; Acts 2020, c. 489, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2020; Acts 2020, c. 490, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2020.