[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1388 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1388

                To make election day a Federal holiday.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 3, 2001

 Ms. Landrieu introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
                To make election day a Federal holiday.

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

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) democracy is an invaluable birthright of American 
        citizens and each generation must sustain and improve the 
        democratic process for its successors;
            (2) the Federal Government must actively create and enforce 
        laws that protect the voting rights of all Americans, and 
        further create an equal opportunity for all Americans to 
        participate in the voting process;
            (3) the Federal Government should encourage the value of 
        the right to vote;
            (4) 22.6 percent of Americans who do not vote in elections 
        give the reasoning that they are too busy and have a 
        conflicting work or school schedule;
            (5) the creation of a legal public holiday on election day 
        will increase the availability of poll workers and suitable 
        polling places; and
            (6) the creation of a legal public holiday on election day 
        might make voting easier for some workers and increase voter 
        participation by the American public.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF ELECTION DAY IN FEDERAL ELECTION YEARS AS A 
              LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY.

    Section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting immediately below the item relating to Veterans Day the 
following:
    ``Election Day, the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November 
in each even-numbered year.''.
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