House Concurrent Resolution 23
Urge federal government designate June 19th as a national holiday.
To urge the United States Congress to pass and the President of the United States to sign legislation to designate June 19th as a national holiday, to be known as Juneteenth Independence Day, in recognition of June 19, 1865, the date on which news of the end of slavery reached enslaved people in the southwestern states.
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House State and Local Government Committee
Primary Sponsors
Juanita O. Brent
Phillip M. Robinson, Jr.
Cosponsors
Representatives
Kristin Boggs
Janine R. Boyd
Richard D. Brown
Erica C. Crawley
Jeffrey A. Crossman
Sedrick Denson
Stephanie D. Howse
Catherine D. Ingram
Dontavius L. Jarrells
Brigid Kelly
David Leland
Michele Lepore-Hagan
Adam C. Miller
Jessica E. Miranda
Michael J. O'Brien
C. Allison Russo
Michael Sheehy
Michael J. Skindell
Kent Smith
Monique Smith
Lisa A. Sobecki
Bride Rose Sweeney
Terrence Upchurch
Casey Weinstein
Thomas West
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