| |
| |
| |
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the designation of January 27 as International |
|
|
Holocaust Remembrance 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 662.079 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 662.079. INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY. (a) |
|
|
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day to |
|
|
commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of |
|
|
Auschwitz-Birkenau and to honor the millions of victims of the |
|
|
Holocaust. |
|
|
(b) International Holocaust Remembrance Day may be |
|
|
regularly observed by appropriate ceremonies and activities. |
|
|
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |
| |
| |
| |
______________________________ |
______________________________ |
| |
President of the Senate |
Speaker of the House |
| |
| |
|
|
I certify that H.B. No. 2728 was passed by the House on May 7, |
|
|
2021, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, 1 present, not |
|
|
voting. |
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Chief Clerk of the House |
| |
| |
|
|
I certify that H.B. No. 2728 was passed by the Senate on May |
|
|
24, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. |
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Secretary of the Senate |
|
|
APPROVED: _____________________ |
|
|
Date |
|
|
|
|
|
_____________________ |
|
|
Governor |