Lunar New Year Day Act

Lunar New Year Day Act

This bill establishes Lunar New Year Day as a federal holiday.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6525 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6525

 To amend title 5, United States Code, to establish Lunar New Year Day 
             as a Federal holiday, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 28, 2022

Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Bourdeaux, Mr. Bowman, Mr. Carson, Mr. Case, 
  Ms. Chu, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Correa, Mr. 
 Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Foster, Mr. 
 Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Gomez, Mr. Horsford, Ms. Jayapal, Ms. Jackson 
  Lee, Mr. Kahele, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Kilmer, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. 
   Lieu, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Nadler, Mrs. 
Napolitano, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Pappas, Mr. Payne, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Raskin, 
Ms. Ross, Mr. Rush, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Sires, 
  Ms. Strickland, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Takano, Mr. Torres of New York, Ms. 
Velazquez, and Ms. Williams of Georgia) introduced the following bill; 
      which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 5, United States Code, to establish Lunar New Year Day 
             as a Federal holiday, 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 ``Lunar New Year Day Act''.

SEC. 2. LUNAR NEW YEAR DAY.

    Section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after the item relating to the Birthday of Martin Luther 
King, Jr., the following:
            ``Lunar New Year Day.''.
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