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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6209
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 4960
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT ESTABLISHING JUNETEENTH INDEPENDE NCE DAY AS A
LEGAL HOLIDAY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 1-4 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2021): 2
In each year the first day of January (known as New Year's Day), the 3
fifteenth day of January of each year prior to 1986, and commencing on 4
the twentieth day of January in 1986, the first Monday occurring on or 5
after January fifteenth (known as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), the 6
twelfth day of February (known as Lincoln Day), the third Monday in 7
February (known as Washington's Birthday), the last Monday in May 8
(known as Memorial Day or Decoration Day), the nineteenth day of June 9
(known as Juneteenth Independence Day), the fourth day of July 10
(known as Independence Day), the first Monday in September (known 11
as Labor Day), the second Monday in October (known as Columbus 12
Day), the eleventh day of November (known as Veterans' Day) and the 13
twenty-fifth day of December (known as Christmas) and any day 14
appointed or recommended by the Governor of this state or the 15
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President of the United States as a day of thanksgiving, fasting or 16
religious observance, shall each be a legal holiday, except that whenever 17
any of such days which are not designated to occur on Monday, occurs 18
upon a Sunday, the Monday next following such day shall be a legal 19
holiday and whenever any of such days occurs upon a Saturday, the 20
Friday immediately preceding such day shall be a legal holiday. When 21
any such holiday, except holidays in January and December, occurs on 22
a school day, each local and regional board of education may close the 23
public schools under its jurisdiction for such day or hold a session of the 24
public schools on such day, provided, if a session is held, the board shall 25
require each school to hold a suitable nonsectarian educational program 26
in observance of such holiday. If a holiday in January or December 27
occurs on a school day, there shall be no session of the public schools on 28
such day. 29
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2021 1-4
Statement of Purpose:
To establish Juneteenth Independence Day as a legal holiday.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. MCGEE, 5th Dist.
H.B. 6209