CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1617
67TH LEGISLATURE
2022 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the House February 2, 2022 Yeas 88 Nays 8
Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 3, 2022 Yeas 45 Nays 3
President of the Senate | CERTIFICATE I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1617 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
Chief Clerk Chief Clerk |
Approved | FILED |
| Secretary of State State of Washington |
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1617
Passed Legislature - 2022 Regular Session
State of Washington | 67th Legislature | 2022 Regular Session |
ByHouse State Government & Tribal Relations (originally sponsored by Representatives Morgan, Leavitt, J. Johnson, Ramel, Callan, Davis, Taylor, Santos, Simmons, Riccelli, Ormsby, and Harris-Talley)
READ FIRST TIME 01/17/22.
AN ACT Relating to aligning state and school holidays; amending RCW
28A.150.050; creating a new section; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. In 2021, the state enacted House Bill No. 1016 to declare Juneteenth a state legal holiday. The legislature finds that there is ambiguity about whether Juneteenth is also a school holiday as a result of that act. The legislature intends to clarify that Juneteenth, like all other state legal holidays, is a school holiday on which school may not be taught.
Sec. 2. RCW
28A.150.050 and 2014 c 177 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) ((
The following are))
All of the state legal holidays set forth in RCW 1.16.050(1) are also school holidays((
,)) and school may not be taught on these days((
:(a) Sunday;
(b) The first day of January, commonly called New Year's Day;
(c) The third Monday of January, celebrated as the anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr.;
(d) The third Monday in February, to be known as Presidents' Day and celebrated as the anniversary of the births of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington;
(e) The last Monday in May, commonly known as Memorial Day;
(f) The fourth day of July, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence;
(g) The first Monday in September, to be known as Labor Day;
(h) The eleventh day of November, to be known as Veterans' Day;
(i) The fourth Thursday in November, commonly known as Thanksgiving Day;
(j) The Friday immediately following the fourth Thursday in November, to be known as Native American Heritage Day; and
(k) The twenty-fifth day of December, commonly called Christmas Day)).
(2) No reduction from a teacher's time or salary may be made by reason of the fact that a school day happens to be one of the days referred to in this section as a day on which school is not taught.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. This act takes effect July 1, 2022.
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