SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1519

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BOUCHER, KREIDER AND HOSMER (Co-sponsors).

Read 1st time January 17, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 9, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the designation of patriots day.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 9, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 9.115, to read as follows:

9.115. April nineteenth of every year shall be known and designated as "Patriots Day". It shall be a day on which to commemorate the day of the "shot heard 'round the world" and the beginning of the American Revolution. The teachers and students of the schools of this state shall observe the day with appropriate exercises. All citizens of this state are requested to devote some portion of patriots day to solemn contemplation on the selfless sacrifice made by those who fought and gave their lives for our nation's independence.


Missouri House of Representatives