2002 Senate Bill 1423

Introduced in the Senate

Sept. 18, 2002

Introduced by Sen. Joe Young, Jr. (D-1)

To establish “Juneteenth” as a state holiday in public schools, and require the teaching of “Juneteenth” in history classes as the “observance commemorating June 19, 1865 as the date that the news of abolition of slavery reached the slaves in the western states”.

Referred to the Committee on Education