NATION : Ida. Senate Votes King Holiday
Legislation declaring the third Monday in January an official state holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. won final legislative approval today.
Senate passage of the bill establishing the Martin Luther King Jr.-Idaho Human Rights Day removed Idaho from the dwindling list of states still refusing to honor the slain civil rights leader with an official holiday.
The bill, clearing the Senate on a 28-11 vote, now goes to Gov. Cecil D. Andrus, who called for its passage in his State of the State address to open the session last January.
Only three other states are now without King holidays--Montana, New Hampshire and Arizona.
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