Status: Active

Established: 1973

On Jan 19th, some Texans take a paid day off for a state holiday honoring Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the Confederate army.

Texas started Confederate Heroes Day in 1973. A bill filed by Democrats in 2015 would have renamed the holiday Civil War Remembrance Day and moved it to May so as to not occasionally conflict with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The proposal died in committee without a vote