To amend title 5, United States Code, to establish election day in Presidential election years as a legal public holiday by moving the legal public holiday known as Veterans Day to election day in such years, and for other purposes.
Last action on Feb 13, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on the Civil Service and Age...
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Summary
Amends Federal civil service law to: (1) make Veterans Day election day in presidential election years (the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in 2004 and each fourth year thereafter); and (2) maintain the current November 11 Veterans Day as a legal public holiday in any other year.
Expresses the sense of Congress that private employers in the United States should give their employees a day off on the presidential election day as established by this Act to enable them to vote.
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