Bill Text: TX HB2224 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to replacing "Confederate Heroes Day" with "Civil War Remembrance Day" as a state holiday.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-20 - Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism [HB2224 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2224-Introduced.html

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85R10920 TSR-F
By: Giddings H.B. No. 2224

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to replacing "Confederate Heroes Day" with "Civil War
Remembrance Day" as a state holiday.
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";
(2) [(3)] the 21st day of April, "San Jacinto Day";
(3) the second Monday in May, "Civil War Remembrance
Day," in honor of the men and women who served during the Civil War;
(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.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.