SB22 establishes Juneteenth Day as a legal holiday.
The Alaska State Senate passed SB22 on May 3, 2023 by a vote of 16 to 4. We have assigned pluses to the nays because the United States observes 10 federal holidays and the state of Alaska already observes 11. At the federal level, Juneteenth was designated as “National Independence Day” instead of July 4, falsely implies differing independence days based on race. This aligns with divisive strategies, akin to communist tactics of “dividing the people.”