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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 3529
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBL Y
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENT A TIVE SMITH (46).
7520H.02I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
T o amend chapter 9, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to Eliot and Muriel
Battle day .
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
2 known as section 9.516, to read as follows:
9.516. June twenty-eighth each year is her eby designated as "Eliot and Muriel
2 Battle Day" in Missouri. The citizens of this state ar e encouraged to participate in
3 appr opriate events and activities to celebrate the lives of Eliot Battle, the first Black
4 faculty member at Hickman High School in Columbia, and Muriel Battle, the first Black
5 principal in the Columbia Public School District. The couple worked as a team to ease
6 racial tensions during the 1960s and have been r ecognized with schools in Columbia
7 named in their honor: Eliot Battle Elementary School and Muriel Wi lliams Battle High
8 School.
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EXPLANA TION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
intended to be omitted from the law . Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.