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.

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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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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 3 January 2001

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 3 January 2001

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 3 January 2001

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