Bill Text: TX HB1471 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the designation of Diwali and Dashain as optional holidays.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-26 - Filed [HB1471 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1471-Introduced.html
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| By: Meza | H.B. No. 1471 | |
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| relating to the designation of Diwali and Dashain as 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 fall; | ||
| (2) one day of the Diwali festival selected by the | ||
| state employee observing the optional holiday; and | ||
| (3) one day of the Dashain festival selected by the | ||
| state employee observing the optional holiday [ |
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| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
