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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2020 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- HOLIDAYS | |
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Introduced By: Representative Anastasia P. Williams | |
Date Introduced: September 24, 2020 | |
Referred To: House Special Legislation | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Section 25-1-1 of the General Laws in Chapter 25-1 entitled "Holidays" is |
2 | hereby amended to read as follows: |
3 | 25-1-1. General holidays enumerated. |
4 | The first day of January or, in the event that day is a Saturday or Sunday, then state |
5 | employees will celebrate the holiday on the following Monday (as New Year's Day), the third |
6 | Monday of January (as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday), the third Monday of February (as |
7 | Washington's Birthday), the fourth day of May (as Rhode Island Independence Day), the last |
8 | Monday of May (as Memorial Day), the fourth day of July or, in the event that day is a Saturday |
9 | or Sunday, then state employees will celebrate the holiday on the following Monday (as |
10 | Independence Day), the second Monday first day of August (as Victory Day Emancipation Day), |
11 | the first Monday of September (as Labor Day), the second Monday of October (as Columbus Day), |
12 | the eleventh day of November or, in the event that day is a Saturday or Sunday, then state employees |
13 | will celebrate the holiday on the following Monday (as Veterans' Day), the twenty-fifth day of |
14 | December, or in the event that day is a Saturday or Sunday, then state employees will celebrate the |
15 | holiday on the following Monday (as Christmas Day), and each of the above days in every year, or |
16 | when either of the above days falls on the first day of the week, then the day following it, the |
17 | Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in each year in which a general election of state |
18 | officers is held (as election day), the first day of every week (commonly called Sunday), and any |
19 | other days as the governor or general assembly of this state or the president or the congress of the |
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1 | United States shall appoint as holidays for any purpose, days of thanksgiving, or days of solemn |
2 | fast, shall be holidays. |
3 | SECTION 2. Section 25-1-1.3 of the General Laws in Chapter 25-1 entitled "Holidays" is |
4 | hereby repealed. |
5 | 25-1-1.3. Victory Day -- Prohibition against use of other name for holiday. |
6 | No state or municipal governmental department or agency shall refer to the second Monday |
7 | of August, "Victory Day" by any other name in an advertisement paid for by the department or |
8 | agency. |
9 | SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF SPECIAL OBSERVANCE -- HOLIDAYS | |
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1 | This act would eliminate the state holiday of Victory Day and insert in place thereof the |
2 | state holiday of Emancipation Day to be held on August 1. |
3 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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