Bill Text: TX HB596 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of certain election days as state holidays.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-01 - Referred to State Affairs [HB596 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB596-Introduced.html

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87R1180 RDS-D
By: Sherman, Sr. H.B. No. 596

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of certain election days as state
holidays.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 662.003(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) A state holiday includes only the following days:
(1) the 19th day of January, "Confederate Heroes Day,"
in honor of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and other Confederate
heroes;
(2) the second day of March, "Texas Independence Day";
(3) the 21st day of April, "San Jacinto Day";
(4) the 19th day of June, "Emancipation Day in Texas,"
in honor of the emancipation of the slaves in Texas in 1865;
(5) the 27th day of August, "Lyndon Baines Johnson
Day," in observance of the birthday of Lyndon Baines Johnson;
(6) the Friday after Thanksgiving Day;
(7) the 24th day of December; [and]
(8) the 26th day of December; and
(9) the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November of an even-numbered year.
SECTION 2. Section 662.021, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 662.021. DATES OF HOLIDAYS. A legal holiday includes
only the following days:
(1) a national holiday under Section 662.003(a); and
(2) a state holiday under Sections 662.003(b)(1)
through (6) and Section 662.003(b)(9).
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.