By: Rose, Reynolds (Senate Sponsor - West, Johnson) H.B. No. 3481

(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.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to designating December 1 as Rosa Parks 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 662.084 to read as follows:

Sec. 662.084. ROSA PARKS DAY. (a) December 1 is Rosa Parks Day in honor of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks for her courageous act of refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to protest segregation which helped launch the civil rights movement in the United States.

(b) Rosa Parks Day may be regularly observed by appropriate programs and activities.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.

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