South Carolina H 3444: Juneteenth-State Holiday

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2025-2026 Bill 3444 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 06, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3444

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Indicates New Matter

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 53-5-10, RELATING TO STATE LEGAL HOLIDAYS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THE 
NINETEENTH DAY OF JUNE - JUNETEENTH IS 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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