36 Relating to: the designation of Vietnam Veterans Day.

Date of enactment: July 20, 2009
2009 Senate Bill 76 Date of publication*: August 3, 2009

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2007-08 : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2009 WISCONSIN ACT 36

An Act to create 14.16 (16) of the statutes; relating to: the designation of Vietnam Veterans Day.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 14.16 (16) of the statutes is created to read:

14.16 (16) Vietnam Veterans Day. To recognize the 1,239 Wisconsin armed forces members who are listed on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., and to express pride and gratitude to the veterans of that war, March 29 is designated as the "Vietnam Veterans Day." The governor shall issue annually a suitable proclamation for the observance of "Vietnam Veterans Day" and request that some portion of the day be used to recall the Vietnam veterans' accomplishments and to thank those veterans for their service during that war.