Bill Text: SC S0008 | 2023-2024 | 125th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Juneteenth-State Holiday
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-08 - Scrivener's error corrected [S0008 Detail]
Download: South_Carolina-2023-S0008-Introduced.html
South Carolina General Assembly
125th Session, 2023-2024
Bill 8
Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter
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A bill
TO AMEND SECTION 53-5-10, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO STATE LEGAL HOLIDAYS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THE NINETEENTH DAY OF JUNE - JUNETEENTH SHALL BE A STATE LEGAL HOLIDAY.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 53510 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:
Section 53510. The first day of January—New Year’s Day, the third Monday of January—Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the third Monday in February—George Washington’s birthday/President’s Day, the tenth day of May—Confederate Memorial Day, the last Monday of May—National Memorial Day, the nineteenth day of June Juneteenth, the fourth day of July—Independence Day, the first Monday in September—Labor Day, the eleventh day of November—Veterans Day, National Thanksgiving Day and the day after, and the twentyfourth, twentyfifth, and twentysixth days of December in each year are legal holidays.
The holiday schedules of public colleges and universities, including technical colleges, shall not be in violation of this section so long as the number of holidays provided for in this section are not exceeded.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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