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Easter Monday Act of 2025

To amend title 5, United States Code, to designate Easter Monday as a legal public holiday.

Introduced Apr 10, 2025

Latest action (Apr 10, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics

Summary
  • Designates Easter Monday as a federal legal public holiday
  • Defines Easter Monday as the first Monday that occurs after Easter Sunday

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)

Actions (2)
  1. Apr 10, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. · senate
  2. Apr 10, 2025 Introduced in Senate

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 2951 — Easter Monday Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 93%
  • HR 794 — Lunar New Year Day Act · Introduced Jan 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • HR 1395 — Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act · Introduced Feb 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 5322 — September 11 Day of Remembrance Act · Introduced Sep 11, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%
  • HR 2119 — St. Patrick’s Day Act · Introduced Mar 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%
  • HR 154 — Election Day Act · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in Senate · Apr 10, 2025

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Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

April 10, 2025

Mr. Schmitt introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To amend title 5, United States Code, to designate Easter Monday as a legal public holiday.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Easter Monday Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. EASTER MONDAY AS A LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY.

Section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to Washington’s Birthday the following: “Easter Monday, the first Monday that occurs after the first Sunday that occurs after the full Moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox (commonly known as ‘Easter Sunday’).”. <all>

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