[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1969 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1969

         To designate Federal election day as a public holiday.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 5, 2015

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

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                                 A BILL


 
         To designate Federal election day as a public holiday.

    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 ``Democracy Day Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL ELECTION DAY AS A PUBLIC HOLIDAY.

    (a) In General.--Section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after the matter relating to Columbus Day, the 
following undesignated paragraph:
    ``Federal Election Day, the Tuesday next after the first Monday in 
November in each even-numbered year.''.
     (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 241(b) of the Help America Vote 
Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 20981(b)) is amended--
            (1) by striking paragraph (10); and
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (11) through (19) as 
        paragraphs (10) through (18), respectively.
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