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other allowances provided by law shall be paid members of the
General Assembly for special session.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforegoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland,
at the next general election to be held in this State in November,
1966, shall be submitted to the legal and qualified voters thereof for
their adoption or rejection in pursuance of directions contained in
Article 14 of the Constitution of this State, and at the said general
election, the vote on the said proposed amendment to the Constitu-
tion shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be printed
the words "for the Constitutional Amendment" and "Against the
Constitutional Amendment" as now provided by law, and, immedi-
ately after said election, all returns shall be made to the Governor
of the vote for and against said proposed amendment, as directed by
said Article 14 of the Constitution, and further proceedings had in
accordance with said Article 14.

Approved April 29, 1966.

CHAPTER 432
(House Bill 137)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 18(b)
of Article 49B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Supple-
ment), title "Inter-Racial Commission," subtitle "Discrimination
in Employment," amending the laws concerning the definition of
the term "employer" in the provisions relating to discrimination
in employment, in order to correct an error therein.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 18(b) of Article 49B of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1965 Supplement), title "Inter-Racial Commission," subtitle
"Discrimination in Employment," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments to read as follows:

18.

(b) The term "employer" means a person engaged in an industry
who has twenty-five or more employees for each working day in
each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding
calendar year, and any agent of such a person, but such term does
not include (1) the State of Maryland, (2) a bona fide private mem-
bership club (other than a labor organization) which is exempt
from taxation under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1954; provided that during the first year after July 1, 1965,
persons having fewer than one hundred employees (and their
agents) shall not be considered employers, and during the second
year after such date, persons having fewer than seventy-five em-
ployees (and their agents) shall not be considered employers, and
during the third year after such date, persons having fewer than
fifty employees (and their agents) shall not be considered em-
ployers; provided further that it shall be the policy of the State of
Maryland to insure equal employment opportunities for State em-
ployees without discrimination because of race, color, creed, sex or