[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5425 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5425

  To require the President to designate a legal public holiday to be 
                known as National First Responders Day.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 2016

Mr. Capuano (for himself, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Israel, Mr. King of New York, 
   Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Fattah, Mrs. Bustos, Mr. Brady of 
 Pennsylvania, Ms. Kuster, Mr. Perlmutter, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of 
 New York, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Hastings, Mr. 
 McGovern, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Meeks, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. 
Meng, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
Carson of Indiana, Mr. Keating, Ms. Tsongas, Ms. Wilson of Florida, and 
Mr. Pascrell) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the President to designate a legal public holiday to be 
                known as National First Responders Day.

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

SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF NATIONAL FIRST RESPONDERS DAY.

    Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the President shall issue a proclamation that designates a date as a 
legal public holiday to be known as ``National First Responders Day'', 
which shall be treated in the same manner as a legal public holiday 
described in section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code.
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