Report Title:
State Holidays; Live Aloha Day
Description:
Replaces Good Friday as a state holiday with a new state holiday, Live Aloha Day.
THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
2103 |
TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to State holidays.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 8-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§8-1 Holidays designated. The following days of each year are set apart and established as state holidays:
The first day in January, New Year's Day;
The third Monday in January, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day;
The third Monday in February, Presidents' Day;
The twenty-sixth day in March, Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day;
[The Friday preceding Easter Sunday, Good Friday;]
The first day in May, Live Aloha Day, also to be known as Lei Day;
The last Monday in May, Memorial Day;
The eleventh day in June, King Kamehameha I Day;
The fourth day in July, Independence Day;
The third Friday in August, Statehood Day;
The first Monday in September, Labor Day;
The eleventh day in November, Veterans' Day;
The fourth Thursday in November, Thanksgiving Day;
The twenty-fifth day in December, Christmas Day;
All election days, except primary and special election days, in the county wherein the election is held;
Any day designated by proclamation by the President of the United States or by the governor as a holiday."
SECTION 2. Section 8-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§8-13[]] Lei Day. May 1 of each year shall be known as "May Day is Lei Day in Hawai`i"[;provided that this day is not and shall not be construed to be a state holiday]."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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