[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR54.6]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 54_CHARITABLE CHOICE REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO STATES RECEIVING 
 
Sec. 54.6  Employment practices.

    (a) The participation of a religious organization in, or its receipt 
of funds from, an applicable program does not affect that organization's 
exemption provided under 42 U.S.C. 2000e-1 regarding employment 
practices.
    (b) To the extent that 42 U.S.C. 300x-57(a)(2) or 42 U.S.C. 290cc-
33(a)(2) precludes a program participant from employing individuals of a 
particular religion to perform work connected with the carrying on of 
its activities, those provisions do not apply if such program 
participant is a religious corporation, association, educational 
institution, or society and can demonstrate that its religious exercise 
would be substantially burdened by application of these religious 
nondiscrimination requirements to its employment practices in the 
program or activity at issue. In order to make this demonstration, the 
program participant must certify: that it sincerely believes that 
employing individuals of a particular religion is important to the 
definition and maintenance of its religious identity, autonomy, and/or 
communal religious exercise; that it makes employment decisions on a 
religious basis in analogous programs; that the grant would materially 
affect its ability to provide the type of services in question; and that 
providing the services in question is expressive of its values or 
mission. The organization must maintain documentation to support these 
determinations and must make such documentation available to SAMHSA upon 
request.
    (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to modify or affect 
any State law or regulation that relates to discrimination in 
employment.
    (d) The phrases ``with respect to the employment,'' ``individuals of 
a particular religion,'' and ``religious corporation, association, 
educational institution, or society'' shall have the same meaning as 
those terms have under section 702 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 
U.S.C. 2000e-1(a).