The term "state holiday" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example: "I'm planning to take the day off for the upcoming state holiday."
Monday is Columbus Day, a state holiday.
In California his birthday, March 31st, is a state holiday.
"But I don't want to give the impression that schools can ignore a state holiday.
How does a day come to be officially designated as a federal or state holiday?
It remains the only state not to recognize Martin Luther King's birthday as a state holiday.
(Most lawmakers took today off in observance of President Lincoln's birthday, a state holiday).
King's birthday has been a federal holiday since 1986, and a South Carolina state holiday since 2000.
The government also announced that Nōrūz, a New Year festival celebrated by Kurds, would be made a state holiday.
It's held on Patriots' Day, a Massachusetts state holiday marking the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
"The amount of snow has nothing to do with it; this is a state holiday," he said.
Juneteenth became a state holiday in Texas in 1980, and a number of other states subsequently followed suit.
