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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
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.
