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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to designating December 1 as Rosa Parks Day. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is |
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amended by adding Section 662.084 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 662.084. ROSA PARKS DAY. (a) December 1 is Rosa Parks |
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Day in honor of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks for her courageous act of |
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refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to |
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protest segregation which helped launch the civil rights movement |
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in the United States. |
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(b) Rosa Parks Day may be regularly observed by appropriate |
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programs and activities. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |