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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 1296
BY REPRESENTATIVE SCHRODER
HOLIDAYS: Provides relative to the use of leave for observance of legal holidays
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 1:55(B)(6), relative to days of public rest and legal holidays; to provide for the2
use of annual or compensatory leave or unpaid leave for the observance of legal3
holidays; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 1:55(B)(6) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง55. Days of public rest, legal holidays, and half-holidays7
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B. Legal holidays shall be observed by the departments of the state as9
follows:10
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(6) A worker in the classified or unclassified service of the state may observe12
the legal holidays provided for in Subparagraph (1)(a) of this Subsection by either13
using annual or compensatory leave or unpaid leave insofar as it may be practicable14
in the administration of the government.15
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Section 2. The provisions of Section 1 of this Act shall become effective on August17
15, 2010, and shall be null and void and have no effect on August 14, 2011, and thereafter18
unless reenacted by the Legislature of Louisiana.19 HLS 10RS-1819 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 1296
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Schroder HB No. 1296
Abstract: Provides for the use of annual or compensatory leave or unpaid leave for
observance of specified legal holidays.
Present law provides that the following legal holidays shall be observed by the departments
of the state insofar as may be practicable for the administration of the government: New
Year's Day; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday which shall be observed on the third
Monday of Jan. of each year or in conjunction with the day of the federal observance; Mardi
Gras Day; Good Friday; Independence Day; Labor Day; Veterans' Day; Thanksgiving Day;
Christmas Day; Inauguration Day once in every four years in the city of Baton Rouge; and
General Election Day every two years.
Proposed law provides that a worker in the classified or unclassified service of the state may
observe present law legal holidays observed by the departments of the state by either using
annual or compensatory leave or unpaid leave insofar as it may be practicable in the
administration of the government.
Effective Aug. 15, 2010, and made null and void on Aug. 14, 2011, and thereafter unless
reenacted by the legislature.
(Adds R.S. 1:55(B)(6))