HB 104

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1State Holiday Amendments
  2026 GENERAL SESSION
  STATE OF UTAH
  Chief Sponsor: Ryan D. Wilcox
  Senate Sponsor:
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3   LONG TITLE
4   General Description:
5This bill creates a new state holiday.
6   Highlighted Provisions:
7This bill:
8▸ establishes the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November as a state holiday called
9   Election Day; and
10▸ makes technical changes.
11   Money Appropriated in this Bill:
12None
13   Other Special Clauses:
14None
15   Utah Code Sections Affected:
16   AMENDS:
1763G-1-301, as repealed and reenacted by Laws of Utah 2025, Chapter 448
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19   Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
20Section 1. Section 63G-1-301 is amended to read:
2163G-1-301 . Legal holidays -- Personal preference day -- Governor authorized to
22   declare additional legal holidays.
23   (1) The following days are legal holidays in Utah:
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24(a) except as provided in Subsection (2)(a) or (b):
25(i) January 1, New Year's Day;
26(ii) July 4, Independence Day;
27(iii) July 24, Pioneer Day;
28(iv) November 11, Veterans Day;
29(v) December 25, Christmas; and
30(vi) a day designated by proclamation issued by the president of the United States or
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31the governor as a day of fasting or thanksgiving;
32      (b)(i) the first Sunday after the first full moon that occurs on or after the spring
33equinox, Easter Sunday;
34(ii) the third Monday of January, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day;
35(iii) the third Monday of February, Washington and Lincoln Day;
36(iv) the last Monday of May, Memorial Day;
37(v) the first Monday of September, Labor Day;
38(vi) the second Monday of October, Columbus Day;
39(vii) the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, Election Day;
40[(vii)] (viii) the fourth Thursday of November, Thanksgiving Day; and
41[(viii)] (ix) except as provided in Subsection (2)(c) or (d), June 19, Juneteenth
42National Freedom Day; and
43      (c) except as provided in Subsection (3), every Sunday.
44  (2)(a) If a day described in Subsection (1)(a) falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday is
45      the legal holiday.
46      (b) If a day described in Subsection (1)(a) falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is
47the legal holiday.
48      (c) If June 19 falls on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, the preceding
49Monday is the legal holiday.
50      (d) If June 19 falls on Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday is the legal holiday.
51  (3) For purposes of Utah Constitution, Article VI, Section 16, Subsection (1), regarding the
52      exclusion of state holidays from the 45-day legislative general session, Sunday is not
53      considered a state holiday.
54  (4) Each employee may select one additional day, called Personal Preference Day, to be
55      scheduled in accordance with rules made, in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah
56      Administrative Rulemaking Act, by the Division of Human Resource Management,
57      which the employee may use to observe a state holy day, as described in Section
58      63G-1-1101, or any other day the employee chooses to recognize.
59  (5)(a) If, in the governor's opinion, extraordinary conditions exist justifying the action,
60      the governor may:
61(i) declare, by proclamation, legal holidays in addition to those legal holidays
62described in Subsections (1) and (2); or
63(ii) limit the legal holidays described in Subsection (5)(a)(i) to certain classes of
64business and activities to be designated by the governor.
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65(b) Except as provided in Subsection (5)(c), a legal holiday described in Subsection
66(5)(a) may not extend for a longer period than 60 consecutive days.
67(c) The governor may, by proclamation:
68(i) renew a legal holiday described in Subsection (5)(a) for one or more periods not
69exceeding 30 days each as the governor determines necessary; or
70(ii) terminate a legal holiday described under Subsection (5)(a) or (b) earlier than the
71time period described in a preceding proclamation.
72Section 2. Effective Date.
73   This bill takes effect on May 6, 2026.
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