Currently, state workers can choose King Day or one of several Confederate holidays as a day off.
State offices are open.
Legislation creating a regular King holiday passed the Senate this year but failed a floor test in the House on March 2 after amendments were added. The bill was sent back to the House Judiciary Committee. One of the amendments would protect Confederate memorials and said the Confederate flags located on the Statehouse dome and in the House and Senate chambers are not racist symbols. Republicans led the effort to attach the Confederate amendment. However, even before the amendments were added, the bill provided for a separate Confederate holiday and did away with the election day holiday every other year.