CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5718

 

                               

 

 

 

                        52nd Legislature

                   1991 First Special Session

Passed by the Senate June 24, 1991

  Yeas 46   Nays 0

 

 

 

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House June 26, 1991

  Yeas 94   Nays 0

               CERTIFICATE

 

I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5718 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

                                 Secretary

 

 

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                     FILED

 

 

 

Governor of the State of Washington

                        Secretary of State

                       State of Washington


 


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                                 SENATE BILL 5718

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                  Passed Legislature - 1991 First Special Session

 

 

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

 

By Senators Owen, Oke, Rasmussen, Conner, Nelson, Thorsness, Bauer and von Reichbauer.

 

Read first time February 18, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Governmental Operations.Establishing purple heart recipient recognition day.


     AN ACT Relating to purple heart recipient recognition day; and amending RCW 1.16.050.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 1.16.050 and 1989 c 128 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

     The following are legal holidays:  Sunday; the first day of January, commonly called New Year's Day; the third Monday of January, being celebrated as the anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr.; the third Monday of February to be known as Presidents' Day and to be celebrated as the anniversary of the births of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington; the last Monday of May, commonly known as Memorial Day; the fourth day of July, being the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence; the first Monday in September, to be known as Labor Day; the eleventh day of November, to be known as Veterans' Day; the fourth Thursday in November, to be known as Thanksgiving Day; the day immediately following Thanksgiving Day; and the twenty-fifth day of December, commonly called Christmas Day.

     Employees of the state and its political subdivisions, except employees of school districts and except those nonclassified employees of institutions of higher education who hold appointments or are employed under contracts to perform services for periods of less than twelve consecutive months, shall be entitled to one paid holiday per calendar year in addition to those specified in this section.  Each employee of the state or its political subdivisions may select the day on which the employee desires to take the additional holiday provided for herein after consultation with the employer pursuant to guidelines to be promulgated by rule of the appropriate personnel authority, or in the case of local government by ordinance or resolution of the legislative authority.

     If any of the above specified state legal holidays are also federal legal holidays but observed on different dates, only the state legal holidays shall be recognized as a paid legal holiday for employees of the state and its political subdivisions except that for port districts and the law enforcement and public transit employees of municipal corporations, either the federal or the state legal holiday, but in no case both, may be recognized as a paid legal holiday for employees.

     Whenever any legal holiday, other than Sunday, falls upon a Sunday, the following Monday shall be the legal holiday.

     Whenever any legal holiday falls upon a Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be the legal holiday.

     Nothing in this section shall be construed to have the effect of adding or deleting the number of paid holidays provided for in an agreement between employees and employers of political subdivisions of the state or as established by ordinance or resolution of the local government legislative authority.

     The legislature declares that the twelfth day of October shall be recognized as Columbus Day but shall not be considered a legal holiday for any purposes.

     The legislature declares that the ninth day of April shall be recognized as former prisoner of war recognition day but shall not be considered a legal holiday for any purposes.

     The legislature declares that the seventh day of August shall be recognized as purple heart recipient recognition day but shall not be considered a legal holiday for any purposes.