[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2970 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2970

To amend title 5, United States Code, to designate Indigenous Peoples' 
  Day as a legal public holiday, to 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 28 (legislative day, September 22), 2023

   Mr. Heinrich (for himself, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Padilla, Ms. Smith, Mr. 
    Kaine, Ms. Warren, Mr. Merkley, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Schatz, Mr. 
 Hickenlooper, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Sanders, and Mr. Booker) 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 Indigenous Peoples' 
  Day as a legal public holiday, to 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 enactment of this Act 
shall be deemed to be a reference to ``Indigenous Peoples' Day''.
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