HB 3529

                                 SECOND REGULAR SESSION
                    HOUSE BILL NO. 3529
                           103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
                          INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SMITH (46).
 7520H.02I  JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
                                            AN ACT
 To amend chapter 9, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to Eliot and Muriel
       Battle day.
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
        Section A. Chapter 9, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be
2 known as section 9.516, to read as follows:
        9.516. June twenty-eighth each year is hereby designated as "Eliot and Muriel
2 Battle Day" in Missouri. The citizens of this state are encouraged to participate in
3 appropriate events and activities to celebrate the lives of Eliot Battle, the first Black
4 faculty member at Hickman High School in Columbia, and Muriel Battle, the first Black
5 principal in the Columbia Public School District. The couple worked as a team to ease
6 racial tensions during the 1960s and have been recognized with schools in Columbia
7 named in their honor: Eliot Battle Elementary School and Muriel Williams Battle High
8 School.
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 EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
 intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.