HOUSE BILL No. 6416

 

 

September 27, 2018, Introduced by Reps. Howrylak, Runestad and LaGrand and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A bill to recognize November 25 of each year as the Michigan

 

day of remembrance of the Holodomor.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. The legislature declares that November 25 of each year

 

shall be the Michigan day of remembrance of the Holodomor, the

 

Ukrainian genocide of 1932-1933, and that the period beginning on

 

the Sunday before that day through the following Sunday shall be

 

days of remembrance in this state in memory of the victims of the

 

genocide and in honor of the survivors.

 

     Enacting section 1. This act takes effect 90 days after the

 

date it is enacted into law.