Florida Senate - 2018                                     SB 224
       
       
        
       By Senator Book
       
       
       
       
       
       32-00441-18                                            2018224__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to legal holidays; amending s. 683.01,
    3         F.S.; removing the designations of the birthdays of
    4         Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis and Confederate
    5         Memorial Day as legal holidays; providing an effective
    6         date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 683.01, Florida
   11  Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         683.01 Legal holidays.—
   13         (1) The legal holidays, which are also public holidays, are
   14  the following:
   15         (a) Sunday, the first day of each week.
   16         (b) New Year’s Day, January 1.
   17         (c) Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., January 15.
   18         (d) Birthday of Robert E. Lee, January 19.
   19         (d)(e) Lincoln’s Birthday, February 12.
   20         (e)(f) Susan B. Anthony’s Birthday, February 15.
   21         (f)(g) Washington’s Birthday, the third Monday in February.
   22         (g)(h) Good Friday.
   23         (h)(i) Pascua Florida Day, April 2.
   24         (j) Confederate Memorial Day, April 26.
   25         (i)(k) Memorial Day, the last Monday in May.
   26         (l) Birthday of Jefferson Davis, June 3.
   27         (j)(m) Flag Day, June 14.
   28         (k)(n) Independence Day, July 4.
   29         (l)(o) Labor Day, the first Monday in September.
   30         (m)(p) Columbus Day and Farmers’ Day, the second Monday in
   31  October.
   32         (n)(q) Veterans’ Day, November 11.
   33         (o)(r) General Election Day.
   34         (p)(s) Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November.
   35         (q)(t) Christmas Day, December 25.
   36         (r)(u) Shrove Tuesday, sometimes also known as “Mardi
   37  Gras,” in counties where carnival associations are organized for
   38  the purpose of celebrating the same.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.