1. (a) 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.
2. (b) The Secretary and the Secretary of Health shall adopt regulations to implement this section.

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

   1. (1) for the purposes described in this section; and
   2. (2) to pay any and all expenses of the Department in administering this section.
4. (d) 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.

Added as Art. 83A, § 3-201, by Acts 1985, c. 109, § 2. Amended by Acts 1986, c. 5, § 4; Acts 1987, c. 11, § 2; Acts 1987, c. 311, § 1; Acts 1988, c. 6, § 8; Acts 1993, c. 383, § 4. Transferred to Labor and Employment § 11-201 and amended by Acts 1995, c. 120, §§ 2, 5, eff. July 1, 1995; Acts 2017, c. 62, § 6. Amended by Acts 2020, c. 489, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2020; Acts 2020, c. 490, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2020.

Formerly Art. 83A, § 3-201.