South Carolina General Assembly
125th Session, 2023-2024

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STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Senators Jackson and K. Johnson
Document Path: SMIN-0029MW23.docx

Introduced in the Senate on January 10, 2023
Currently residing in the Senate

Summary: Juneteenth-State Holiday

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date Body Action Description with journal page number
11/30/2022 Senate Prefiled
11/30/2022 Senate Referred to Committee on Family and Veterans' Services
1/10/2023 Senate Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 19)
1/10/2023 Senate Referred to Committee on Family and Veterans' Services (Senate Journal-page 19)
2/8/2023 Scrivener's error corrected

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

12/01/2022
02/08/2023



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TO AMEND SECTION 53-5-10, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, RELATING TO STATE LEGAL HOLIDAYS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THE NINETEENTH DAY OF JUNE - JUNETEENTH SHALL BE A STATE LEGAL HOLIDAY.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1.   Section 53-5-10 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

   Section 53-5-10.   The first day of January-New Year's Day, the third Monday of January-Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the third Monday in February-George Washington's birthday/President's Day, the tenth day of May-Confederate Memorial Day, the last Monday of May-National Memorial Day, the nineteenth day of June - Juneteenth, the fourth day of July-Independence Day, the first Monday in September-Labor Day, the eleventh day of November-Veterans Day, National Thanksgiving Day and the day after, and the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth days of December in each year are legal holidays.

   The holiday schedules of public colleges and universities, including technical colleges, shall not be in violation of this section so long as the number of holidays provided for in this section are not exceeded.

SECTION 2.      This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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