Florida Senate - 2018                                     SB 214
       
       
        
       By Senator Book
       
       
       
       
       
       32-00383-18                                            2018214__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to legal holidays; amending s. 683.01,
    3         F.S.; removing the designation of Confederate Memorial
    4         Day as a legal holiday; providing an effective date.
    5          
    6  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    7  
    8         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 683.01, Florida
    9  Statutes, is amended to read:
   10         683.01 Legal holidays.—
   11         (1) The legal holidays, which are also public holidays, are
   12  the following:
   13         (a) Sunday, the first day of each week.
   14         (b) New Year’s Day, January 1.
   15         (c) Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., January 15.
   16         (d) Birthday of Robert E. Lee, January 19.
   17         (e) Lincoln’s Birthday, February 12.
   18         (f) Susan B. Anthony’s Birthday, February 15.
   19         (g) Washington’s Birthday, the third Monday in February.
   20         (h) Good Friday.
   21         (i) Pascua Florida Day, April 2.
   22         (j) Confederate Memorial Day, April 26.
   23         (j)(k) Memorial Day, the last Monday in May.
   24         (k)(l) Birthday of Jefferson Davis, June 3.
   25         (l)(m) Flag Day, June 14.
   26         (m)(n) Independence Day, July 4.
   27         (n)(o) Labor Day, the first Monday in September.
   28         (o)(p) Columbus Day and Farmers’ Day, the second Monday in
   29  October.
   30         (p)(q) Veterans’ Day, November 11.
   31         (q)(r) General Election Day.
   32         (r)(s) Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November.
   33         (s)(t) Christmas Day, December 25.
   34         (t)(u) Shrove Tuesday, sometimes also known as “Mardi
   35  Gras,” in counties where carnival associations are organized for
   36  the purpose of celebrating the same.
   37         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.