[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5851 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5851

  To designate Veterans Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday in 
                               November.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 11, 2014

 Mr. Grayson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To designate Veterans Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday in 
                               November.

    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 ``Honoring Our Veterans By Exercising 
The Right To Vote On Veterans Day Act''.

SEC. 2. ADDITION OF ELECTION DAY AS A LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY.

    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., the third Monday in 
        January.
            ``Washington's Birthday, the third Monday in February.
            ``Memorial Day, the last Monday in May.
            ``Independence Day, July 4.
            ``Labor Day, the first Monday in September.
            ``Columbus Day, the second Monday in October.
            ``Veterans Day, the Tuesday after the first Monday in 
        November.
            ``Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November.
            ``Christmas Day, December 25.''.
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