1358                                      LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 651

CHAPTER 652
(Senate Bill 84)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 6(f) of Article 95A of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume), title
"Unemployment Insurance Law," subtitle "Benefits," to establish the
conditions under which women are eligible to receive unemployment benefits
during pregnancy.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 6(f) of Article 95A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume), title "Unemployment Insurance Law,"
subtitle "Benefits," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

6.

(f) [For the four months before the expected date of the birth of a child and the
two months after the actual date of the birth of said child, in either of which cases
the Executive Director may require the production of doctor's certificates to
establish such dates; but she shall be eligible for benefits during the first five
months of pregnancy providing that she is physically able to continue her
employment and is otherwise eligible under the benefit eligibility conditions set out
in Section 4(c).]

FOR ANY PERIOD OF DISABILITY AS A RESULT OF PREGNANCY
DURING WHICH PERIOD SHE IS PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO
CONTINUE HER EMPLOYMENT. HOWEVER, SHE SHALL BE ELIGIBLE
FOR BENEFITS DURING PREGNANCY PROVIDING THAT SHE IS
PHYSICALLY ABLE TO CONTINUE HER EMPLOYMENT , AS
PROPERLY CERTIFIED BY HER PHYSICIAN, AND IS OTHERWISE
ELIGIBLE UNDER THE BENEFIT OF ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS SET
OUT IN SECTION 4(C).

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 24, 1973.

CHAPTER 653
(Senate Bill 98)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 274A to 297, inclusive, of Article 23 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title
"Corporations", subtitle "III. Particular Classes of Corporations", heading
"Religious Corporations", subheading "Protestant Episcopal Church-Diocese
of Maryland" (commonly known as the "Vestry Act"), and to re-enact in lieu
thereof a new Section 275 applicable to all parishes and separate congregations
of the Diocese of Maryland howsoever incorporated, including those
incorporated prior to the effective date of the Constitution of 1851 unless they
have irrepealable charters, and to permit any such church to adopt by-laws
governing the qualifications of its voters at congregational meetings and