By Reyna of Bexar                                      H.B. No. 723
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to creating a state holiday honoring Cesar Chavez.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 662.003(b), Government Code, is amended
 1-5     to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  A state holiday includes only the following days:
 1-7                 (1)  the 19th day of January, "Confederate Heroes Day,"
 1-8     in honor of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and other Confederate
 1-9     heroes;
1-10                 (2)  the second day of March, "Texas Independence Day";
1-11                 (3)  the 31st day of March, "Cesar Chavez Day," in
1-12     observance of the birthday of Cesar Chavez;
1-13                 (4)  the 21st day of April, "San Jacinto Day";
1-14                 (5) [(4)]  the 19th day of June, "Emancipation Day in
1-15     Texas," in honor of the emancipation of the slaves in Texas in
1-16     1865;
1-17                 (6) [(5)]  the 27th day of August, "Lyndon Baines
1-18     Johnson Day," in observance of the birthday of Lyndon Baines
1-19     Johnson;
1-20                 (7) [(6)]  every day on which an election is held
1-21     throughout the state;
1-22                 (8) [(7)]  the Friday after Thanksgiving Day;
1-23                 (9) [(8)]  the 24th day of December; and
1-24                 (10) [(9)]  the 26th day of December.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  Section 662.021, Government Code, is amended to
 2-2     read as follows:
 2-3           Sec. 662.021.  DATES OF HOLIDAYS.  A legal holiday includes
 2-4     only the following days:
 2-5                 (1)  a national holiday under Section 662.003(a); and
 2-6                 (2)  a state holiday under Sections 662.003(b)(1)
 2-7     through (7) [(6)].
 2-8           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-9     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14     passage, and it is so enacted.