[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2269 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2269

 To provide for annual observances of certain legal public holidays on 
                        their traditional dates.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 26, 1993

  Mr. Crane introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Post Office and Civil Service

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for annual observances of certain legal public holidays on 
                        their traditional dates.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

    (a) Designation of Holidays.--Section 6103(a) of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) The following are legal public holidays:
            ``New Year's Day, January 1.
            ``Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., January 15.
            ``Washington's Birthday, February 22.
            ``Memorial Day, May 30.
            ``Independence Day, July 4.
            ``Labor Day, the 1st Monday in September.
            ``Columbus Day, October 12.
            ``Veterans Day, November 11.
            ``Thanksgiving Day, the 4th Thursday in November.
            ``Christmas Day, December 25.''.
    (b) Days for Observance.--Any reference in a law of the United 
States to the observance of a legal public holiday on a day other than 
the day prescribed for the observance of the holiday by section 6103(a) 
of title 5, United States Code (as amended by subsection (a) of this 
section) shall be considered to be a reference to the day for the 
observance of the holiday prescribed in such section.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    Section 1 shall take effect on January 1, 1994.

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