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Article IV of the Constitution of Maryland as enacted by Chapter
___ of the Acts of 1972 (S.B. ____ or H.B. ___); and if Section 25 26 of

Article IV of the Constitution is not amended by Chapter___above,

then this Act shall become null and void without the necessity of
further action by the General Assembly.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, subject to the provi-
sions of Section 2 above, this Act shall take effect January 1, 1972.
1973.

Approved May 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 435
(Senate Bill 638)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 19(g)
of Article 49B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Human Relations Commission," subtitle
"Discrimination in Employment," to provide that an employer
may establish dress and grooming standards on the basis of an
employee's sex, IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 19(g) of Article 49B of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1972 Replacement Volume), title "Human Relations Commis-
sion," subtitle "Discrimination in Employment," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

19.

(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle, (1) it
shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to
hire and employ employees, for an employment agency to classify,
or refer for employment any individual, for a labor organization to
classify its membership or to classify or refer for employment any
individual, or for an employer, labor organization or joint labor-
management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training
or retaining programs to admit or employ any individual in any such
program, on the basis of his religion or national origin in those
instances where sex, age, religion or national origin is a bona fide
occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal opera-
tion of that particular business or enterprise; (2) it shall not be an
unlawful employment practice for an employer to establish standards
concerning an employee's dress and grooming on the basis of the
employee's sex PROVIDED THAT THE STANDARDS ARE DI-
RECTLY RELATED TO THE NATURE OF THE EMPLOYMENT
OF THE EMPLOYEE; [(2)] (3) it shall not be an unlawful em-
ployment practice for a school, college, university, or other educa-
tional institution or institution of learning to hire and employ
employees of a particular religion if such school, college, university,
or other educational institution or institution of learning is, in
whole or in substantial part, owned, supported, controlled, or man-
aged by a particular religion or by a particular religious corporation,