Legal holidays; remove Confederate Memorial Day and designate June 19 as Juneteenth Freedom Day.
SB 2588 removes Confederate Memorial Day from Mississippi's list of legal holidays and designates June 19 as "Juneteenth Freedom Day" as a new legal holiday. This bill directly affects state government operations, public schools, and state employees by changing the official calendar of observances. The key mechanism is amending Mississippi Code Section 3-3-7 to delete Confederate Memorial Day and add Juneteenth Freedom Day, while clarifying that holidays falling on weekends will be observed on the following Monday. The bill does not change existing observances for other holidays like Independence Day or Memorial Day.
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Jan 2025
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Introduced Jan 20, 2025
Last action Feb 4, 2025
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