Democracy Day Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-1969
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2015-08-05
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays

Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Latest action: action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-08-05
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Democracy Day Act of 2015 </b></p> <p> Designates Federal Election Day, the next Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each even-numbered year, as a legal public holiday.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1969 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES August 5, 2015 Mr. Sanders introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To designate Federal election day as a public holiday.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Democracy Day Act of 2015 . 2. Federal election day as a public holiday (a) In general Section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the matter relating to Columbus Day, the following undesignated paragraph: Federal Election Day, the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in each even-numbered year. . (b) Conforming amendment Section 241(b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ( 52 U.S.C. 20981(b) ) is amended— (1) by striking paragraph (10); and (2) by redesignating paragraphs (11) through (19) as paragraphs (10) through (18), respectively.