Bill Text: TX HB2728 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB2728 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2728-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the designation of January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB2728 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2728-Comm_Sub.html
By: Martinez Fischer, Morales Shaw, Tinderholt | H.B. No. 2728 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Johnson) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2021; | ||
May 11, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Administration; May 20, 2021, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 20, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the designation of January 27 as International | ||
Holocaust Remembrance Day. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 662.079 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 662.079. INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY. (a) | ||
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day to | ||
commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of | ||
Auschwitz-Birkenau and to honor the millions of victims of the | ||
Holocaust. | ||
(b) International Holocaust Remembrance Day may be | ||
regularly observed by appropriate ceremonies and activities. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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