[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4019 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4019

To amend title 5, United States Code, to designate Juneteenth National 
              Independence Day as a legal public holiday.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 22, 2020

Mr. Markey (for himself, Ms. Smith, Mr. Booker, Ms. Harris, Mr. Cornyn, 
  Mr. Casey, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Gardner, Mr. 
 Sanders, Mrs. Capito, Mr. King, Mr. Young, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Burr, Mr. 
Kaine, Ms. Collins, Ms. Warren, Ms. Ernst, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Duckworth, 
   Mr. Brown, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Coons, Mr. 
Wyden, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Durbin, Ms. 
   Cantwell, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Menendez, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Hassan, Mrs. 
Gillibrand, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Risch, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Cramer, 
 Mr. Udall, Mr. Scott of South Carolina, Mr. Heinrich, and Mr. Peters) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to designate Juneteenth National 
              Independence Day as a legal 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 ``Juneteenth National Independence Day 
Act''.

SEC. 2. JUNETEENTH NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY AS A LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY.

    Section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after the item relating to Memorial Day the following:
            ``Juneteenth National Independence Day, June 19.''.
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