Holidays: other; Diwali; designate as a holiday. Creates new act.

SB 17 designates Diwali (also called Deepavali or the Festival of Lights) as an official state holiday in Michigan. It defines the holiday as the new moon day in the eighth lunar month of the Indic calendar, celebrated by Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs. The bill creates a new legal provision to formally recognize this date as a state holiday for public employees and state institutions. It does not change existing holiday observances or create new funding requirements. The bill is currently in the introduction phase, referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs.