MS HB471

Designates June 19 as "Juneteenth Freedom Day" and adds it to the list of legal holidays in Mississippi Code Section 3-3-7.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned of their freedom, nearly two years after President Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.

Establishes Juneteenth as a statewide legal holiday alongside existing holidays such as Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, with observance on the following day if June 19 falls on Sunday.

Exempts Juneteenth from the provision allowing municipalities and counties to substitute it for another legal holiday (except for the Martin Luther King Jr./Robert E. Lee birthday holiday and Veterans' Day).