Bill Text: TX HB86 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the designation of certain election days as state holidays.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-07 - Filed [HB86 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB86-Introduced.html
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| By: Reynolds | H.B. No. 86 | |
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| relating to the designation of certain election days as state | ||
| holidays. | ||
| 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"; | ||
| (3) the 21st day of April, "San Jacinto Day"; | ||
| (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; [ |
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| (8) the 26th day of December; and | ||
| (9) the first Tuesday after the first Monday in | ||
| November of an even-numbered year. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 662.021, Government Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 662.021. DATES OF HOLIDAYS. A legal holiday includes | ||
| only the following days: | ||
| (1) a national holiday under Section 662.003(a); and | ||
| (2) a state holiday under Sections 662.003(b)(1) | ||
| through (6) and Section 662.003(b)(9). | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
