Bill Text: TX HB2728 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB2728 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB2728-Engrossed.html
  87R9524 SGM-F
 
  By: Martinez Fischer, et al. H.B. No. 2728
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the designation of January 27 as International
  Holocaust Remembrance Day.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 662.079 to read as follows:
         Sec. 662.079.  INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY. (a)  
  January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day to
  commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of
  Auschwitz-Birkenau and to honor the millions of victims of the
  Holocaust.
         (b)  International Holocaust Remembrance Day may be
  regularly observed by appropriate ceremonies and activities.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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