Bill Text: TX SB759 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of Remember the Alamo Day as a state holiday.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-22 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB759 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB759-Introduced.html

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85R2398 AAF-D
By: Menéndez S.B. No. 759

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of Remember the Alamo Day as a state
holiday.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1.006(f)(2), Election Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(2) "State holiday" means a state holiday under
Sections 662.003(b)(1) through (7) [(6)], Government Code.
SECTION 2. 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 sixth day of March, "Remember the Alamo Day,"
in honor of Davy Crockett, Gregorio Esparza, James Bowie, Toribio
Losoya, William B. Travis, and all who fought and died at the battle
of the Alamo for the independence of the great State of Texas;
(4) the 21st day of April, "San Jacinto Day";
(5) [(4)] the 19th day of June, "Emancipation Day in
Texas," in honor of the emancipation of the slaves in Texas in 1865;
(6) [(5)] the 27th day of August, "Lyndon Baines
Johnson Day," in observance of the birthday of Lyndon Baines
Johnson;
(7) [(6)] the Friday after Thanksgiving Day;
(8) [(7)] the 24th day of December; and
(9) [(8)] the 26th day of December.
SECTION 3. 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 (7) [(6)].
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.