Juneteenth Is Now A Federal Holiday

6103 Juneteenth Federal Holiday

Juneteenth is Now a Federal Holiday

Section 6103 establishes June 19th as a Federal Holiday

6103 establishes the public holidays listed in these pages for Federal employees. The Juneteenth holiday is celebrated this year on Wednesday June 19 2024.

Juneteenth is observed as a federal holiday and is designated as a permanent holiday and commemorated annually. In 2021 Juneteenth became the latest federal holiday in the US the first to be approved since Martin Luther King Jr.

WASHINGTON President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law Thursday officially making June 19 a federal.