HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                 2041

that State employees must fulfill in order to seek
relief from the Human Relations Commission; eliminating
certain restrictions on the remedies available to State
employees in cases before the Human Relations
Commission; and relating generally to the procedures of
the Human Relations Commission.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 49B - Human Relations Commission

Section 2(b) and 11(g) 7(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1979 Supplement)

BY repealing

Article 49B - Human Relations Commission

Section 3(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1979 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 49B - Human Relations Commission

2.

(b) The Commission shall appoint the number of hearing
examiners provided in the budget. The hearing examiner shall
be an attorney who is qualified by experience to handle
discrimination cases of the type arising under this article.
The hearing examiner shall conduct hearings, make findings
of fact, and draw conclusions of law in discrimination cases
assigned to the hearing examiner. The hearing examiner shall

prepare [a provisional order which shall become] the

APPEALABLE final order of the Commission [unless an appeal
is taken from said provisional order to the commissioners].

The hearing examiner shall be paid the compensation

provided in the budget.

3.

[(d) The Commission, in addition to it other duties,
shall serve as an appeal board for the review of decisions

of the hearing examiner. The appellate panel of

commissioners, as determined by the rules of procedure of

the Commission, may allow any party affected by the

examiner's decision to introduce additional relevant

testimony or evidence at the time of an appeal from the
hearing examiner.]

11.