SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1285

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES ENGLISH (Sponsor), FUNDERBURK, RUNIONS, WIELAND, BURNS, BLACK, KOLKMEYER, WHITE, PACE AND ALLEN (Co-sponsors).

4702H.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To repeal sections 170.049 and 171.051, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to school holidays.

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

            Section A. Sections 170.049 and 171.051, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 170.049 and 171.051, to read as follows:

            170.049. The board of each school district shall require each school in such district to devote a period of time equal to one class period to an observance that conveys the meaning and significance of Veterans Day. Such observance shall take place [on or] as close as possible to Veterans Day. The board, in consultation with the administrators of each school in the district, shall determine the activities which will constitute the required observance.

            171.051. School holidays include Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, December twenty-fifth, the third Monday in February, and July fourth.

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