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House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: November 27, 2023 09:49 AM
From: Representative Perry A. Stambaugh
To: All House members
Subject: Designate Flag Day, Constitution Day and Charter Day
 
In the near future I will introduce legislation to ensure that our Commonwealth properly honors a trio of days uniquely connected to Pennsylvania history and that unite us by celebrating the virtues of what it means to be an American.

The bill would designate the following as state holidays without observation or paid time off:
  • June 14 as Flag Day, when the U.S. flag was adopted by resolution of the Second Continental Congress, located in Philadelphia, in 1777. 
  • September 17 as Constitution Day, marking the 1787 signing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia of the Constitution of the United States, the most important of our nation’s founding documents. 
  • March 4 as Charter Day, when our state’s founder William Penn received the Charter Contract of Pennsylvania from Britain’s King Charles II in 1681. Charter Day allows all Pennsylvanians, and people the world over, to reflect on Penn’s “Holy Experiment” in government, one operating on principles of justice, liberty, freedom, tolerance, and respect for all. 
I hope you join me in supporting this measure.


Introduced as HB1913