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1 SENATE BILL NO. 146
2 INTRODUCED BY S. MORIGEAU
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4 A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: “AN ACT REVISING LEGAL HOLIDAYS IN MONTANA; ESTABLISHING
5 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY; REMOVING COLUMBUS DAY; AND AMENDING SECTION 1-1-216, MCA.”
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7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
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9 Section 1. Section 1-1-216, MCA, is amended to read:
10 "1-1-216. Legal holidays and business days. (1) The following are legal holidays in the state of
11 Montana:
12 (a) Each Sunday;
13 (b) New Year's Day, January 1;
14 (c) Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January;
15 (d) Lincoln's and Washington's Birthdays, the third Monday in February;
16 (e) Memorial Day, the last Monday in May;
17 (f) Independence Day, July 4;
18 (g) Labor Day, the first Monday in September;
19 (h) Columbus Day, the second Monday in October;
20 (h) Indigenous Peoples' Day, the second Monday in October;
21 (i) Veterans' Day, November 11;
22 (j) Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November;
23 (k) Christmas Day, December 25;
24 (l) State general election day.
25 (2) (a) If any of the holidays in subsection (1)(b) through (1)(l) fall on a Sunday, the Monday following
26 is a holiday.
27 (b) If any of the holidays in subsection (1)(b) through (1)(l) fall on a Saturday, the Friday preceding is
28 a holiday.
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1 (c) All other days are business days."
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3 NEW SECTION. Section 2. Notification to Montana supreme court. The secretary of state shall
4 send a copy of [this act] to the Montana supreme court. The Montana supreme court is requested to update the
5 definition of "legal holiday" in its rules of civil procedure to reflect the provisions of [section 1].
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7 NEW SECTION. Section 3. Notification to tribal governments. The secretary of state shall send a
8 copy of [this act] to each federally recognized tribal government in Montana.
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Statutes affected: Introduced: 1-1-216