Bill Text: TX HB3481 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to designating December 1 as Rosa Parks Day.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB3481 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3481-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3481 | ||
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| relating to designating December 1 as Rosa Parks 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 662.084 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 662.084. ROSA PARKS DAY. (a) December 1 is Rosa Parks | ||
| Day in honor of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks for her courageous act of | ||
| refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to | ||
| protest segregation which helped launch the civil rights movement | ||
| in the United States. | ||
| (b) Rosa Parks Day may be regularly observed by appropriate | ||
| programs and activities. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3481 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
| 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3481 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 21, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
