PRINTER'S NO. 738
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
789
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY KAZEEM, KHAN, DAWKINS, KINSEY, WAXMAN, HANBIDGE,
RABB, FRANKEL, MADDEN, PARKER, BULLOCK, HOHENSTEIN, HILL-
EVANS, SANCHEZ, WARREN, KRAJEWSKI AND MALAGARI,
MARCH 30, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 30, 2023
AN ACT
Amending the act of November 30, 1965 (P.L.847, No.356),
entitled "An act relating to and regulating the business of
banking and the exercise by corporations of fiduciary powers;
affecting persons engaged in the business of banking and
corporations exercising fiduciary powers and affiliates of
such persons; affecting the shareholders of such persons and
the directors, trustees, officers, attorneys and employes of
such persons and of the affiliates of such persons; affecting
national banks located in the Commonwealth; affecting persons
dealing with persons engaged in the business of banking,
corporations exercising fiduciary powers and national banks;
conferring powers and imposing duties on the Banking Board,
on certain departments and officers of the Commonwealth and
on courts, prothonotaries, clerks and recorders of deeds;
providing penalties; and repealing certain acts and parts of
acts," in general provisions, further providing for legal
holidays.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 113(b) of the act of November 30, 1965
(P.L.847, No.356), known as the Banking Code of 1965, is amended
by adding a paragraph to read:
Section 113. Legal Holidays
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(b) Optional holidays--An institution may at its option
observe as a legal holiday:
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(iii.1) Eid al-Fitr (the first day of the lunar month of
Shawwal);
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Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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