I agree it's a milestone worth celebrating. I'm a little surprised that they passed it only a day before it going in to effect, but that might just me missing the preliminary talk. I know it's been all over the media this year, so it's probably my aversion to main stream media that's at fault.
As an aside, as somebody who used to get federal holidays off, I know it's a big disruption to tell an organization that, oh by the way, everybody has tomorrow off.