Md. Code, Labor and Employment § 8.3-302
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Official statutory text
§8.3–302.
The purpose of the Program is to provide temporary benefits to a covered individual who is taking leave from employment:
(1) (i) to care for or bond with a child of the covered individual during the first year after the child’s birth; or
(ii) during the process through which a child is being placed with the covered individual through foster care, kinship care, or adoption and to care for and bond with the child during the first year after the placement;
(2) to care for a family member with a serious health condition;
(3) because the covered individual has a serious health condition that results in the covered individual being unable to perform the functions of the covered individual’s position;
(4) to care for an eligible service member for whom the covered individual is next of kin; or
(5) because the covered individual has a qualifying exigency arising out of the deployment of an eligible service member who is a family member of the covered individual.
The purpose of the Program is to provide temporary benefits to a covered individual who is taking leave from employment:
(1) (i) to care for or bond with a child of the covered individual during the first year after the child’s birth; or
(ii) during the process through which a child is being placed with the covered individual through foster care, kinship care, or adoption and to care for and bond with the child during the first year after the placement;
(2) to care for a family member with a serious health condition;
(3) because the covered individual has a serious health condition that results in the covered individual being unable to perform the functions of the covered individual’s position;
(4) to care for an eligible service member for whom the covered individual is next of kin; or
(5) because the covered individual has a qualifying exigency arising out of the deployment of an eligible service member who is a family member of the covered individual.
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