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The bill gives federal employees an extra paid day off and modestly boosts morale but creates modest recurring costs for taxpayers and an annual interruption to federal services.
Federal civilian employees (all federal civilian workers) would receive an additional paid federal holiday (Easter Monday), giving them one more paid day off annually.
Adding the holiday is likely to improve morale and work–life balance for affected federal employees.
One more federal holiday would interrupt government services and can delay processing for the public on that weekday each year.
Taxpayers would face modest additional recurring costs because the government must pay employees for an extra paid day off.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Adds Easter Monday to the federal statutory list of public holidays for federal employees.
Adds Easter Monday to the list of federal legal public holidays for federal employees by amending the federal holiday statute. The change inserts Easter Monday immediately after Washington’s Birthday in the statutory list and does not include funding, implementation deadlines, or additional programmatic changes.
Introduced April 17, 2025 by Riley M. Moore · Last progress April 17, 2025