Bill Text: TX HB505 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to replacing "Cesar Chavez Day" with "Texas Hispanic Heritage Day" as an optional state holiday.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-17 - Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism [HB505 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB505-Introduced.html

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82R3640 CJC-D
By: Lewis H.B. No. 505

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to replacing "Cesar Chavez Day" with "Texas Hispanic
Heritage Day" as an optional state holiday.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 662.013, Government Code,
is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 662.013. OPTIONAL HOLIDAY FOR TEXAS HISPANIC HERITAGE
[CESAR CHAVEZ] DAY.
SECTION 2. Sections 662.013(a), (b), and (c), Government
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The 16th [31st] day of September [March] shall be
designated "Texas Hispanic Heritage ["Cesar Chavez] Day" in
observance of the battle for independence from Spain in Mexico,
including the area now known as Texas [the birthday of Cesar
Chavez].
(b) The administrative head of a state agency may allow an
employee of the agency to have a day off with pay on Texas Hispanic
Heritage [Cesar Chavez] Day in lieu of any other state holiday that
occurs on a weekday, other than a weekday on which an election is
held throughout the state, on which the state agency is required to
be open but on which the operations of the agency are required to be
maintained at only a minimum level.
(c) On Texas Hispanic Heritage [Cesar Chavez] Day, each
state agency shall remain open and conduct the operations of the
agency at a minimum level.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.