The usual suspects in the Missouri House of Representatives are spending their time on the really pressing issues facing the state:

SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1425

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES FUNDERBURK (Sponsor), JONES (89), McGHEE, ZERR, GATSCHENBERGER, FISCHER (107), KRAUS, JONES (117), SMITH (14) AND KOENIG (Co-sponsors).

3492L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 9, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to an official designation of the Christmas season.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

           Section A. Chapter 9, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 9.025, to read as follows:

           9.025. The day after Thanksgiving Day until midnight December twenty-sixth of each year shall be known and is designated as the “Christmas Season” in Missouri.

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There’s got to be a clause in there somewhere acknowledging Talk Like a Pirate Day or the Pastafarians are gonna get upset.