Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3470 Primary Sponsor:T.C. Alexander Committee Number:30 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Legal holiday, Monday after Easter Sunday Residing Body:House Current Committee:Ways and Means Date Tabled:Apr 09, 1991 Computer Document Number:3470 Introduced Date:Feb 07, 1991 Last History Body:House Last History Date:Apr 09, 1991 Last History Type:Tabled in Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:T.C. Alexander Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN
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3470 House Apr 09, 1991 Tabled in Committee 30
3470 House Feb 07, 1991 Introduced, read first time, 30
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 53-5-10, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO LEGAL HOLIDAYS, SO AS TO ADD THE MONDAY AFTER EASTER SUNDAY AS A LEGAL HOLIDAY.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 53-5-10 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 53-5-10. The first day of January, the fifteenth day of January, the nineteenth day of January, the third Monday in February, the Monday after Easter Sunday, the tenth day of May, the last Monday of May, the third day of June, the fourth day of July, the first Monday in September, the eleventh day of November, National Thanksgiving Day and the day after, and the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth days of December in each year are legal holidays.
State employees may select, prior to before the first day of January, in writing on a form provided by their employer, one of the following nonnational holidays: Martin Luther King's birthday, January 15; Robert E. Lee's birthday, January 19; Confederate Memorial Day, May 10; or Jefferson Davis' birthday, June 3,; or, in the alternative, select a day of their choice.
All general election days are legal holidays in addition to the above."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.