Bill Text: TX HB1047 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of certain optional holidays.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB1047 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB1047-Introduced.html

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89R3451 RDS-D
By: Bhojani H.B. No. 1047

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of certain optional holidays.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 662.003(c), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) An "optional holiday" includes only:
(1) the days on which Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, [or]
Good Friday, All Saints' Day, Lunar New Year, Dashera, Vaisakhi,
Vesak, Eid al-Fitr, or Eid al-Adha fall; and
(2) one day of the Diwali festival and one day of
Passover selected by the state employee observing the optional
holiday [falls].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.