By: Rose, Reynolds (Senate Sponsor - West, Johnson) H.B. No. 3481
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2021;
May 11, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on
Administration; May 20, 2021, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 20, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to designating December 1 as Rosa Parks Day.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 662.084 to read as follows:
Sec. 662.084. ROSA PARKS DAY. (a) December 1 is Rosa Parks
Day in honor of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks for her courageous act of
refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to
protest segregation which helped launch the civil rights movement
in the United States.
(b) Rosa Parks Day may be regularly observed by appropriate
programs and activities.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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