Democracy Day Act of 2003

Democracy Day Act of 2003 - Requires the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in 2004 and in each even-number year thereafter (Election Day) to be treated in the same manner as November 11 (Veterans Day) for purposes of any laws relating to Federal employment. Urges private employers to give their employees that day off to enable them to vote.

Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the impact of such requirement on voter participation.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1508 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1508

  To treat the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in the 
same manner as November 11 for purposes of Federal employment, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 31, 2003

  Mr. Conyers (for himself, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Wu, Mr. Rodriguez, Mr. 
   Rangel, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Frost, Ms. Kilpatrick, Ms. Woolsey, Ms. 
 Carson of Indiana, Ms. Kaptur, and Mr. Davis of Illinois) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Government 
                                 Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To treat the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in the 
same manner as November 11 for purposes of Federal employment, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Democracy Day Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF ELECTION DAY IN SAME MANNER AS VETERANS DAY FOR 
              PURPOSES OF FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT.

    For purposes of any law relating to Federal employment, the Tuesday 
next after the first Monday in November in 2004 and each even-numbered 
year thereafter shall be treated in the same manner as November 11.

SEC. 3. STUDY BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF IMPACT ON VOTER PARTICIPATION.

    (a) In General.--The Comptroller General shall conduct a study of 
the impact of section 2 on voter participation.
    (b) Report.--Not later than May 1, 2009, the Comptroller General 
shall submit a report to Congress and the President on the results of 
the study conducted under subsection (a).

SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING TREATMENT OF DAY BY PRIVATE 
              EMPLOYERS.

    It is the sense of Congress that private employers in the United 
States should give their employees a day off on the Tuesday next after 
the first Monday in November in 2004 and each even-numbered year 
thereafter to enable the employees to cast votes in the elections held 
on that day.
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