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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
HOUSE BILL 4190 By: Echols
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to definitions and general
provisions; amending 25 O.S. 2021, Section 82.1,
which relates to holidays; authorizing personal
holiday leave for state employees; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 25 O.S. 2021, Section 82.1, i s
amended to read as follows:
Section 82.1 A. The designation and dates of holidays in
Oklahoma shall be as follows: Each Saturday, Sunday, New Year 's Day
on the 1st day of January, Martin Luther King, Jr. 's Birthday on the
third Monday in January, Pres idents' Day on the third Monday in
February, Memorial Day on the last Monday in May, Independence Day
on the 4th day of July, Labor Day on the first Monday in September,
Veterans' Day on the 11th day of November, Thanksgiving Day on the
fourth Thursday in November, the day after Thanksgiving Day,
Christmas on the 25th day of December, the day before or afte r
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Christmas if Christmas is not on a Saturday or Sunday, the Thursday
and Friday before Christmas if Christmas is on a Saturday, the
Monday and Tuesday a fter Christmas, if Christmas is on a Sunda y; and
if any of such holidays other than Christmas fall on S aturday, the
preceding Friday shall be a holiday in that year and if any of such
holidays other than Christmas fall on Sunday, the succeeding Monday
shall be a holiday in that year.
B. The Governor shall issue an Executive Order each year
specifying the dates on which the holidays other than Saturdays and
Sundays designated in subsection A of this section occur. If the
President of the United States decl ares any day other than those
listed in subsection A of this section as a national holiday, the
Governor may issue an Executive Order declaring such day a state
holiday.
C. Any act authorized, required, or permitted to be performed
on a holiday as designa ted in subsection A of this section may be
performed on the next succeeding business day, and no liabil ity or
loss of rights of any kind shall result from such delay.
D. State employees, except for temporary and other limited term
employees, shall be enti tled to a day off work without loss of pay
on those holidays specified in an Executive Order issued by the
Governor pursuant to subsection B of this section. Those state
employees, except for temporary and other limited term employees,
who are required to work on a holiday specified in subsection B of
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this section shall be entitled to a day off work, witho ut loss of
pay, on an alternative date or payment in lieu thereof at the
discretion of the appointing authority and in accordance with rules
of the Director of the Office of Management and Enterp rise Services.
E. For the purposes of this section, "holiday" means that
agencies whose mission does not require them to be open for business
every day of the year shall be closed for official business.
F. In addition to the holidays specified in subsection A of
this section, state employees, except for temporary and other
limited term employees, shall be entitled to one personal holiday
each year which may be used on Good Friday , Juneteenth, Statehood
Day, Indigenous Peoples Day, or the b irthday of the employee. If
any of such holidays fall on Saturday, the preceding Frida y shall be
a holiday in that year , and if any of such holidays fall on Sunday,
the succeeding Monday shall be a holiday in that year.
SECTION 2. This act shall become e ffective November 1, 2022.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT MODERNIZATION AND
EFFICIENCY, dated 02/17/2022 - DO PASS.