Volume 50 · 534
Public Law 75–522
To amend the Civil Service Act approved January 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403), and for other purposes.
Approved July 26, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Civil Service Act approved January 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403), and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That an Act entitled
Civil Service Act, amendment.
“An Act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States” (Act of January 16, 1883, 22 Stat. 403), is hereby amended by adding
at the end of the sixth paragraph of section 2 of the Act a new paragraph, as follows:
No discrimination because of marital status.
“And no person shall be discriminated against in any case because of his or her marital status in examination, appointment, reappointment, reinstatement, reemployment, promotion, transfer, retransfer, demotion, removal, or retirement. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.”
Approved, July 26, 1937.