MS HB247

Designates June 19 as "Juneteenth Freedom Day" in Mississippi to commemorate June 19, 1865, when former slaves in Texas learned that slavery had ended

Explicitly provides that Juneteenth Freedom Day is NOT a legal holiday and will incur no expense to the state—it is solely a day of commemoration, recognition, and observation

Clarifies that if any legal holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday (or another day declared by the Governor) will be observed as the legal holiday

Reorganizes existing legal holiday statute into lettered subsections (a) through (j) and renumbers subsequent subsections without changing the existing holidays

Mississippi's existing legal holidays remain unchanged, including the combined Robert E. Lee/Martin Luther King Jr. birthday and Confederate Memorial Day