[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2758 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2758

  To require that general Federal elections be held during the first 
  consecutive Saturday and Sunday in November, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 2, 2001

   Mr. Hastings of Florida introduced the following bill; which was 
           referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require that general Federal elections be held during the first 
  consecutive Saturday and Sunday in November, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Election Weekend Act''.

SEC. 2. CHANGE IN GENERAL ELECTION DATE.

    (a) Electors.--Section 1 of title 3, United States Code, is amended 
by striking ``on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November'' 
and inserting ``on the first consecutive Saturday and Sunday in 
November''.
    (b) Congressional Elections.--Section 25 of the Revised Statutes (2 
U.S.C. 7) is amended to read as follows:
    ``Sec. 25. The first consecutive Saturday and Sunday in November, 
in every even numbered year, are established as the days for the 
election, in each of the States and Territories of the United States, 
of Representatives and Delegates to the Congress commencing on the 3d 
day of January thereafter.''.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING TREATMENT OF DAY BY PRIVATE 
              EMPLOYERS.

    It is the sense of Congress that private employers in the United 
States should give their employees a day off on either day of the first 
consecutive Saturday and Sunday in November in 2002 and each second 
year thereafter to enable the employees to cast votes in the Federal 
and other elections held on that day.
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