[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2919 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2919

  To designate Indigenous Peoples' Day as a legal public holiday and 
 replace the term ``Columbus Day'' with the term ``Indigenous Peoples' 
                     Day'', and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 30, 2021

   Mr. Heinrich (for himself, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Padilla, Ms. Smith, Ms. 
 Warren, and Mr. Kaine) introduced the following bill; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To designate Indigenous Peoples' Day as a legal public holiday and 
 replace the term ``Columbus Day'' with the term ``Indigenous Peoples' 
                     Day'', and for other purposes.

    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 ``Indigenous Peoples' Day Act''.

SEC. 2. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY AS A LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY.

    Section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
striking the item relating to Columbus Day and inserting the following:
            ``Indigenous Peoples' Day, the second Monday in October.''.

SEC. 3. TERM ``COLUMBUS DAY'' REPLACED.

    Any reference to ``Columbus Day'' in any law, rule, regulation, or 
other official paper in effect as of the date of the enactment of this 
Act shall be deemed to be a reference to ``Indigenous Peoples' Day''.
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