MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                               339

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 49C - Maryland Commission on the Status of
Women, to be under the amended title
"Maryland Commission for Women"

Section 1 and 2

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 1 and 2 of Article 49C - Maryland
Commission on the Status of Women, to be under the
amended title "Maryland Commission for Women", of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and
1975 Supplement.) be and they are hereby repealed and
reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 49C — Maryland Commission [on
the Status of] FOR Women

1.

This article shall be known as the "Maryland
Commission [on the Status of] FOR Women Act."

2.

The Maryland Commission [on the Status of] FOR Women
is established and [shall consist] CONSISTS of 24 members
appointed by the Governor from among persons interested
in the improvement of the status of women. The
membership shall include both men and women and shall be
broadly representative of all fields of interest of
women. It shall include persons experienced in public
affairs, private industry and volunteer activities and
shall represent various age groups and geographical
regions of the State. The Commission is a unit of the
Department of [Employment and Social Services] HUMAN
RESOURCES and shall report to the Governor and the
legislature through the secretary [thereof] OF THE
DEPARTMENT.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved April 13, 1976.

CHAPTER 158
(House Bill 249)
AN ACT concerning